Dodia

Dodia
Dodia
Dodia tarandus imago
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Arctiidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Tribe: Callimorphini
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 (family Arctiidae) found in subarctic tundra and taiga ecosystems. They belong to the tribe Callimorphini of subfamily Arctiinae.[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 Callimorphini, they are inconspicuous, colored a somewhat translucent grey-brown and without bold markings; with the typical slender body shape of their subtribe, they resemble at a casual glance certain larentiine geometer moths (Geometridae), e.g. the Operophterini, rather than the more typical Callimorphini. Like in the former, flightless females are known to occur in Dodia.[2]

Species

Long held to contain only 2 species, several others have been discovered and described since the 1980s. Consequently, it is quite possible that further ones await discovery. As of 2009, the known species are:[3]

  • Dodia albertae Dyar, 1901
  • Dodia diaphana (Eversmann, 1848)
  • Dodia kononenkoi Tshistjakov & Lafontaine, 1984
  • Dodia maja Rekelj & Česanek, 2009
  • Dodia sazonovi Dubatolov, 1990
  • Dodia verticalis Lafontaine & Troubridge, [2000] 1999
  • Dodia tarandus Schmidt et Macaulay, 2009
  • Dodia transbaikalensis Tshistjakov, 1988 (sometimes in D. kononenkoi)

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

  • Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2004): Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species – Dodia. Version of 2004-NOV-05. Retrieved 2011-FEB-07.
  • Rekelj, J. & Česanek, M. (2009): Dodia maja sp. n., a new tiger moth from the Magadan territory, Russia (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Acta Zool. Acad. Sci. Hung. 55(3): 275–282. fulltext
  • Savela, Markku (2009): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Dodia. Version of 2010-May-13. Retrieved 2011-FEB-07.


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