Chelis gratiosa

Chelis gratiosa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Chelis
Species:	C. gratiosa
Binomial name
Chelis gratiosa (Grum-Grshimailo, 1890)
Synonyms
Palearctia gratiosa(Grum-Grshimailo, 1890) Arctia glaphyra var. gratiosaGrum-Grshimailo, 1890 Palearctia kashmiricaFerguson, 1985 Micrarctia glaphyra ab. nebulosaReich, 1932 Ocnogyna postflavidaHampson, 1894 Palearctia postflavida Arctia rupicolaGrum-Grshimailo, 1890 Arctia glaucaStaudinger, 1891 [1892] Palearctia sarycolade Freina, 1997 Micrarctia lochmatteriReich, 1933

Chelis gratiosa is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Grigory Grum-Grshimailo in 1890. It is found in the western Tien Shan, the Pamir-Alay, Kyrgyzstan, Turkestan, Hissar, Trans-Alai, the Pamir Mountains, Pakistan, Kashmir and western China. ^[1]

This species was moved from the genus Palearctia to Chelis as a result of phylogenetic research published in 2016. ^{[2] [3]}

Subspecies

• Chelis gratiosa gratiosa (Alai, Tajikistan, north-western Pamirs)
• Chelis gratiosa caroliDubatolov, 1996 (Chatkal, Kirghizskii Alatau)
• Chelis gratiosa flavoalaDubatolov, 1996 (Zeravshan, Turkestan, mountain ranges of Hissar)
• Chelis gratiosa kashmiricaFerguson, 1985 (Kashmir)
• Chelis gratiosa lochmatteri(Reich, 1933) (Pakistan: Karakorum)
• Chelis gratiosa postflavida(Hampson, 1894) (Kashmir)
• Chelis gratiosa rupicola(Grum-Grshimailo, 1890) (eastern Trans-Alai, eastern and south-western Pamirs)
• Chelis gratiosa sarezicaDubatolov & Gurko, 2003 (Tajikistan)
• Chelis gratiosa sarycolade Freina, 1997 (Sarykol Mountains)
• Chelis gratiosa sergeiDubatolov, 1996 (south-eastern Terskei Alatau)

References

1. Savela, Markku. "Palearctia gratiosa (Grum-Grshimailo, 1890)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 9, 2019.
2. Rönkä, Katja; Mappes, Johanna; Kaila, Lauri; Wahlberg, Niklas (2016). "Putting Parasemia in its phylogenetic place: a molecular analysis of the subtribe Arctiina (Lepidoptera)". Systematic Entomology. 41 (4): 844–853. doi: 10.1111/syen.12194 .
3. Saldaitis, Aidas; Volynkin, Anton V. (2020). "On the taxonomy of the Chelis glaphyra (Eversmann, 1843) speciesgroup, with description of a new subspecies of Chelis gratiosa (GrumGrshimailo, 1890) from Kyrgyzstan, brachipterous females of Chelis kashmirica (Ferguson, 1985) and Chelis golbecki..." . Ecologica Montenegrina. 38. doi:10.37828/em.2020.38.7. Archived from the original on 2021-05-07. Retrieved 2021-09-24.

• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Arctiidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.