Dodia

Dodia
Dodia tarandus imago
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Tribe: Arctiini
Subtribe: Callimorphina
Genus: Dodia
Dyar, 1901
Diversity
At least 7 or 8 species (see text)
Synonyms
  • Hyalocoa Hampson, 1901

Dodia is a genus of woolly bear moths in the Erebidae family. The moths are found in subarctic tundra and taiga ecosystems. They belong to the subtribe Callimorphina of tribe Arctiini.[1]

Like most of their closest relatives, they are mid-sized moths (a few cm/around 1 inch wingspan) which may be active all day, but avoid direct sunlight. Unlike many of the Callimorphina, they are inconspicuous and colored a somewhat translucent grey-brown and without bold markings. They have the typical slender body shape of other species of their subtribe, and they resemble, at a casual glance, certain larentiine geometer moths (Geometridae), e.g. the Operophterini, rather than the more typical Callimorphina. Like in the former, flightless females are known to occur in Dodia.[2]

Species

Long held to contain only two species, several more have been discovered and described since the 1980s. Consequently, it is quite possible that further species await discovery. As of 2009, the known species are:[3]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Rekelj & Česanek (2009), and see references in Haaramo (2010)
  2. ↑ Rekelj & Česanek (2009)
  3. ↑ Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), Rekelj & Česanek (2009), and see references in Haaramo (2010)

References

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