Chelis maculosa Speckled Pellicle[1] is a tiger moth of the family Erebidae. 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.
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
Genus: | Chelis |
Species: | C. maculosa
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Binomial name | |
Chelis maculosa (Gerning, 1780)
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Synonyms | |
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The wingspan is 32–34 mm. The moth flies from June to August depending on the location.
The larvae feed on Galium verum and at times also other Galium species.
Subspecies
edit- Chelis maculosa maculosa
- Chelis maculosa arragonensis (Staudinger, 1894)
- Chelis maculosa honesta (Tauscher, 1806)
- Chelis maculosa stertzi (Schulz, 1902)
References
edit- ^ "Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa". www.leps.it. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
External links
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- Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa
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- Lepiforum.de
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