Chelis
Encyclopedia
Chelis is a genus
of moth
s in the Arctiidae
family.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of moth
Moth
A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...
s in the Arctiidae
Arctiidae
Arctiidae is a large and diverse family of moths with around 11,000 species found all over the world, including 6,000 neotropical species. This family includes the groups commonly known as tiger moths , which usually have bright colours, footmen , lichen moths and wasp moths...
family.
Species
- Chelis caecilia (Kindermann in Lederer, 1853)
- Chelis dahurica (Boisduval, 1832)
- Chelis ferghana Dubatolov, 1988
- Chelis maculosaChelis maculosaChelis maculosa is a moth of the family Arctiinae. It is found in Southern and Central Europe up to Hungary, in eastern direction it occurs through Ukraine, Southern Russia, Kazakhstan to north-western regions of Chinese Xinjiang.The wingspan is 32-34 mm...
(Gerning, 1780) - Chelis reticulata (Christoph, 1887)
- Chelis simplonica (Anderregg in Boisduval, 1840)
- Chelis strigulosa (Böttcher, 1905)