Chelis mongolica
Chelis mongolica is a species of tiger moth in the family Erebidae, described by Sergei Alphéraky in 1888. It is found in the Gobi Desert and neighboring arid territories.
| Chelis mongolica | |
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| A female | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Chelis Dubatolov, 1990 |
| Species: | C. mongolica |
| Binomial name | |
| Chelis mongolica (Alphéraky, 1888) | |
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The larvae feed on Artemisia sieversiana.[1]
This species was moved from the genus Centrarctia to Chelis as a result of phylogenetic research published in 2016.[2]
References
- Savela, Markku. "Palearctia Ferguson, 1984". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved December 6, 2017.
- 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.
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