Chelis gratiosa

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]

Chelis gratiosa
Scientific classification Edit this 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
Synonyms
  • Palearctia gratiosa (Grum-Grshimailo, 1890)
  • Arctia glaphyra var. gratiosa Grum-Grshimailo, 1890
  • Palearctia kashmirica Ferguson, 1985
  • Micrarctia glaphyra ab. nebulosa Reich, 1932
  • Ocnogyna postflavida Hampson, 1894
  • Palearctia postflavida
  • Arctia rupicola Grum-Grshimailo, 1890
  • Arctia glauca Staudinger, 1891 [1892]
  • Palearctia sarycola de Freina, 1997
  • Micrarctia lochmatteri Reich, 1933

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 caroli Dubatolov, 1996 (Chatkal, Kirghizskii Alatau)
  • Chelis gratiosa flavoala Dubatolov, 1996 (Zeravshan, Turkestan, mountain ranges of Hissar)
  • Chelis gratiosa kashmirica Ferguson, 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 sarezica Dubatolov & Gurko, 2003 (Tajikistan)
  • Chelis gratiosa sarycola de Freina, 1997 (Sarykol Mountains)
  • Chelis gratiosa sergei Dubatolov, 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.


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