Chelis glaphyra
| Chelis glaphyra | |
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| Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Class: | Insecta | 
| Order: | Lepidoptera | 
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea | 
| Family: | Erebidae | 
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae | 
| Genus: | Chelis | 
| Species: | C. glaphyra 
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| Binomial name | |
| Chelis glaphyra (Eversmann, 1843) 
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Chelis glaphyra is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Eduard Friedrich Eversmann in 1843. It is found in eastern Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the central Tien Shan and China (Xinjiang).[1]
This species was moved from the genus Palearctia to Chelis as a result of phylogenetic research published in 2016.[2][3]
Subspecies
- Chelis glaphyra glaphyra (eastern Kazakhstan)
 - Chelis glaphyra aksuensis O. Bang-Haas, 1927 (Kyrgyzstan, China: Xinjiang)
 - Chelis glaphyra dublitzkyi (O.Bang-Haas, 1927) (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan)
 - Chelis glaphyra manni (Staudinger, 1881) (north-eastern Tien Shan)
 
References
- ^ Savela, Markku. "Palearctia glaphyra (Eversmann, 1843)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 15, 2018.
 - ^ 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.
 - ^ 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.
 
- Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Arctiidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.