Chelis

Chelis
For the Romanian village of Cheliş, see Suliţa.
Chelis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Arctiidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Tribe: Micrarctiini
Genus: Chelis
Rambur, 1866

Chelis is a genus of moths in the Arctiidae family.

Species

  • Chelis caecilia (Kindermann in Lederer, 1853)
  • Chelis dahurica (Boisduval, 1832)
  • Chelis ferghana Dubatolov, 1988
  • Chelis maculosa (Gerning, 1780)
  • Chelis reticulata (Christoph, 1887)
  • Chelis simplonica (Anderregg in Boisduval, 1840)
  • Chelis strigulosa (Böttcher, 1905)

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 Depatment: Novosibirsk. (Series “New and little known species of Siberian fauna”, No 20) (in Russian).
  • Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog



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