Taxonavigation

Familia: Erebidae
Subfamilia: Arctiinae
Tribus: Arctiini
Subtribus: Arctiina
Genus: Chelis
Species: C. ammosovi – C. caecilia – C. cantabrica – C. dahurica – C. erschoffii – C. ferghana – C. glaphyra – C. golbecki – C. gracilis – C. gratiosa – C. hauensteini – C. kashmirica – C. maculosa – C. marxi – C. mira – C. mustangbhoti – C. rasa – C. reticulata – C. simplonica – C. strigulosa – C. turkestana – C. variabilis – C. wagneri

Taxa of uncertain status:

• Arctia maculosa var. slivnoënsis Rebel, 1903; Ann. k.k. nat.-hist. Hofmus. Wien 18: (274)-275. Type locality: “Slivno” [Bulgaria].
• Chelis maculosa aumayri Huber & Stengel, 1989; Atalanta 20 (1-4): 191–194, Farbtafel, fig 1-2. Type locality: “Hellas, Peloponnes, Provinz Achaia, Mt. Chelmos ... 1700 m” [Greece].

Name

Chelis Rambur, 1866; Cat. syst. Lépid. Andalousie (2): 256.

Type species: Bombyx maculosa Gerning, 1780, by subsequent designation by Kirby, 1892, Synonymic Cat. Lepid. Heterocera 1: 263.

References

• Dubatolov, V.V., 1988: A species review of the genus Chelis Rbr. (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) from the fauna of the U.S.S.R. In: Taxonomy of animals of Siberia: 80–98, Nauka, Siberian Department: Novosibirsk. (Series: “New and little known species of Siberian fauna”, No 20) (in Russian).
• Dubatolov, V.V., 2010: Tiger-moths of Eurasia (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) (Nyctemerini by Rob de Vos & Vladimir V. Dubatolov). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 65: 1–106, Marktleuthen.
• Huber, K. & Stengel, D., 1989: Eine neue Subspezies von Chelis maculosa (Gerning, 1780) aus Griechenland (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). Atalanta 20 (1-4): 191–196, Farbtafel, Würzburg.
• Macià, R., Gastón, F.J., Redondo, V., & Ylla, J. (2013). Chelis cantabrica Macià, Gastón, Redondo & Ylla, sp. n., nueva especie de árctido de la Península Ibérica (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Arctiinae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, 41(161), 157-162.
• Rambur, P., 1866: Catalogue systématique des lépidoptères de l'Andalousie (2): 93–412, Pl. XI-XXII, J.B. Bailliçre:Paris.
• Rebel, H., 1903: Studien über die Lepidopterenfauna der Balkanländer. I. Teil. Bulgarien und Ostrumelien. Annalen des kaiserlich-königlichen Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums 18: 123–347, T. 3, Wien.

• Rönkä, K., Mappes, J., Kaila, L. & Wahlberg, N. 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 Reference page. 

• Saldaitis & Volynkin 2020a. On the taxonomy of the Chelis glaphyra (Eversmann, 1843) species- group, with description of a new subspecies of Chelis gratiosa (Grum-Grshimailo, 1890) from Kyrgyzstan, brachipterous females of Chelis kashmirica (Ferguson, 1985) and Chelis golbecki (Dubatolov, 1996), and the checklist of the species-group (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Arctiini). Ecologica Montenegrina 38: 51-62. DOI: 10.37828/em.2020.38.7. . Reference page. 

• Spitsyn, V.M. & Potapov, G.S. 2020b. Description of the female of Chelis ferghana Dubatolov, 1988, an endemic moth species of the Tien Shan Range in Central Asia (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae). Zootaxa 4790(1): 198–200. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4790.1.14. {{. Reference page. 

• Witt, T.J. & Ronkay, L. (Eds.) 2011. Noctuidae Europaeae. Volume 13. Lymantriinae and Arctiinae, including phylogeny and check list of the quadrifid Noctuoidea of Europe. Entomological Press, Sorø, 448 pp. ISBN 978-87-89430-18-8. Reference page.