Biology:Chelis rasa

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Short description: Species of moth

Chelis rasa
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Chelis
Species:
C. rasa
Binomial name
Chelis rasa
(Saldaitis, Ivinskis & Churkin, 2000)
Synonyms
  • Palearctia rasa Saldaitis, Ivinskis & Churkin, 2000

Chelis rasa is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Saldaitis, Ivinskis and Churkin in 2000. It is found in China (Xinjiang: the Karlik Mountains).[1]

This species was moved from the genus Palearctia to Chelis as a result of phylogenetic research published in 2016.[2][3]

References

  1. Savela, Markku. "Palearctia rasa Saldaitis, Ivinskis & Churkin, 2000". https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/arctiidae/arctiinae/palearctia/#rasa. Retrieved August 30, 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. https://www.biotaxa.org/em/article/view/em.2020.38.7. 

Wikidata ☰ Q16756757 entry