''Dodia'' is a

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of woolly bear

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

s in the family

Erebidae The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwings ('' Catocala'') ...

. The genus was erected by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1901. The moths are found in

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and

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s. They belong to the

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Callimorphina The Callimorphina are a subtribe of woolly bear moths in the family Erebidae. The subtribe was described by Francis Walker in 1865. Many of these moths are easily confused with butterflies, being quite brightly colored and somewhat diurnal. T ...

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Arctiini. Like most of their closest relatives, they are mid-sized

s (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 coloured 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''.

Species

Long held to contain only two

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, 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:Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), Rekelj & Česanek (2009), and see references in Haaramo (2010) * '' Dodia albertae'' Dyar, 1901 * '' Dodia diaphana'' (Eversmann, 1848) * '' Dodia kononenkoi'' Tshistjakov & Lafontaine, 1984 * '' Dodia maja'' Rekelj & Česanek, 2009 * '' Dodia sazonovi'' Dubatolov, 1990 * '' Dodia tarandus'' Schmidt et Macaulay, 2009 * '' Dodia transbaikalensis'' Tshistjakov, 1988 (sometimes in ''D. kononenkoi'') * '' Dodia verticalis'' Lafontaine & Troubridge,

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Footnotes

References

* *Rekelj, J. & Česanek, M. (2009)
"''Dodia maja'' sp. n., a new tiger moth from the Magadan territory, Russia (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae)"
'' Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae''. 55 (3): 275–282. * Callimorphina Moth genera {{Callimorphina-stub