Chelis puengeleri

Chelis puengeleri is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Otto Bang-Haas in 1927. It is found in northern Scandinavia, Russia, Mongolia and Alaska.

Chelis puengeleri
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. puengeleri
Binomial name
Chelis puengeleri
(O. Bang-Haas, 1927)
Synonyms
  • Holoarctia puengeleri (O. Bang-Haas, 1927)
  • Orodemnias puengeleri O. Bang-Haas, 1927
  • Orodemnias cervini fridolini Torstenius, 1971
  • Holoarctia cervini perunovi Dubatolov, 1990

The wingspan is 31–37 mm. Adults are on wing in June and July.[1]

The larvae feed on Salix herbacea.[2]

This species was formerly a member of the genus Holoarctia, but was moved to Chelis along with the other species of the genera Holoarctia, Neoarctia, and Hyperborea.[3][4]

Subspecies

  • Chelis puengeleri puengeleri
  • Chelis puengeleri fridolini (Torstenius, 1971)
  • Chelis puengeleri iremelica Dubatolov, 2007 (Russia: Chelyabinsk Province)
  • Chelis puengeleri perunovi Dubatolov, 1990 (Russia: South Siberian Mountains, north-western Mongolia)
  • Chelis puengeleri sibirica Dubatolov, 2007 (Russia: Yakutia)

References

  1. Swedish Moths
  2. Norwegian Moths
  3. 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.
  4. Schmidt, B. Christian; Lafontaine, J. Donald; Troubridge, James T. (2018). "Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico IV". ZooKeys (252): 241–252. doi:10.3897/zookeys.252.28500. PMC 6189224. PMID 30337831.


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