Chelis pardalina | |
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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. pardalina
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Binomial name | |
Chelis pardalina (
Püngeler, 1898)
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Chelis pardalina is a species of tiger moth genus in the family Erebidae, known from deserts in Central Asia: Kara-Kum, Ustyurt and Sary-Kum. The species was first described by Rudolf Püngeler in 1898. [1] Females are brachypterous.
This species was previously the sole member of the genus Tancrea, but was moved to Chelis along with the species of six other genera as a result of phylogenetic research published in 2016. [2]