Dicallomera

Dicallomera is a genus of tussock moths in the family Erebidae.

Dicallomera
Dicallomera fascelina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Tribe: Orgyiini
Genus: Dicallomera
Butler, 1881
Synonyms[1]

Taxonomy

Linnaeus first described Phalaena bombyx fascelina in 1758. Arthur Gardiner Butler first created the genus Dicallomera in 1881, for which he made Dicallomera fascelina the type species. In 1887 Otto Staudinger moved this species to the genus Dasychira, and also described a new species, D. nivalis -he had previously described D. pumila in 1881, and would later describe D. obscurata in 1900 (now a subspecies of Dicallomera nivalis). In 1934 Felix Bryk moved it and a number of Dasychira species to the genus Olene. Igor Vasilii Kozhanchikov followed Bryk in 1950, but Douglas C. Ferguson in 1978 moved O. fascelina and a number of species back to Butler's Dicallomera. One new species, Dicallomera kusnezovi from Wrangel Island in far northern Arctic Russia, was described in 1989 by Vladimir A. Lukhtanov and Khruliova, and a few other species were moved to Dicallomera, including D. pumila by Tatyana A. Trofimova in 2008 from Gynaephora.[1] D. kusnezovi was subsumed as a subspecies under Gynaephora rossii by Vladimir A. Lukhtanov and Olga Khruleva in 2015 following DNA research.[2]

Species
4-5 cm long caterpillar of Dicallomera fascelina in mountain meadows of yellow alfalfa at c. 1800 m elevation, north of Bach near Lech Valley, Austria.

As of 2008, the genus was composed of the following species:[1]

gollark: ~play any given day ignite the light
gollark: ~play bleed from within night crossing
gollark: ~play erra breach
gollark: ~play polaris landmine
gollark: ~play hawk counter ops

References
  1. Trofimova, Tatyana A. (January 2008). "Systematic notes on Dasorgyia Staudinger, 1881, Dicallomera Butler, 1881, and Lachana Moore, 1888 (Lymantriidae)" (PDF). Nota Lepidopterologica. 31 (2): 273–291. ISSN 0342-7536. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 April 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  2. Lukhtanov, Vladimir A.; Khruleva, Olga (2015). "Taxonomic Position and Status of Arctic Gynaephora and Dicallomera Moths (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Lymantriinae)". Folia Biologica (Kraków). 63 (4): 257–261. doi:10.3409/fb63_4.257. ISSN 1734-9168. PMID 26975140. S2CID 4837579.


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