''Dicallomera'' is a genus of

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s in the family

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Taxonomy

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first described ''Phalaena bombyx fascelina'' in 1758.

Arthur Gardiner Butler Arthur Gardiner Butler F.L.S., F.Z.S. (27 June 1844 – 28 May 1925) was an English entomologist, arachnologist and ornithologist. He worked at the British Museum on the taxonomy of birds, insects, and spiders. Biography Arthur Gardiner B ...

first created the genus ''Dicallomera'' in 1881, for which he made '' Dicallomera fascelina'' the

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. In 1887

Otto Staudinger Otto Staudinger (2 May 1830 – 13 October 1900) was a German entomologist and a natural history dealer considered one of the largest in the world specialising in the collection and sale of insects to museums, scientific institutions, and indi ...

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

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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''. ''D. kusnezovi'' was subsumed as a subspecies under ''

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'' by Vladimir A. Lukhtanov and Olga Khruleva in 2015 following DNA research.

Species

*'' Dicallomera angelus'' ( Chetverikov, 1904) *'' Dicallomera fascelina'' (

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, 1881 **''D. f. fascelina'' **''D. f. caucasica'' Sheljuzhko, 1919 **''D. f. danieli'' de Freina, 1979 **''D. f. fischeri''

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, 1952 **''D. f. karafutonis'' Matsumura, 1933 **''D. f. moto'' Bryk, 1949 **''D. f. obscura'' Zetterstedt, 1840 **''D. f. salangi'' Ebert, 1968 *'' Dicallomera kaszabi'' (Daniel, 1969) *'' Dicallomera nivalis'' ( Staudinger, 1887) **''D. n. nivalis'' **''D. n. obscurata'' (Staudinger, 1900) *'' Dicallomera olga'' ( Oberthür, 1881) *'' Dicallomera pumila'' (Staudinger, 1881) Trofimova, 2008

References

Lymantriinae Moth genera {{Noctuoidea-stub