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Chelis maculosa (Gerning, 1780)
Baltic Grayling
Niedźwiedziówka plamica

Familia  Arctiidae
Ordo  Lepidoptera
Classis  Insecta
Typus  Arthropoda
   
Summary  It is an extremely rare species of local occurrence, known from a few isolated localities in the region of Ponidzie, Lublin Upland and the Sandomierz Upland. It is connected with xerothermic and steppe-like habitats. All the localities are protected in nature reserves. There are no data as to populations inhabiting these localities; they are probably small and more or less stable. Threats to the species include a small size of particular localities and their destruction by trampling, littering, pollution and burning grass. Conservation efforts should focus on preventing burning of grass in spring, which kills wintering caterpillars, and preventing overgrowing of xerothermic habitats due to plant succession.
  
   
Literature  Murzin V.S. 2003. The Tiger Moths of the former Soviet Union (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Pensoft, Sofia-Moscow, 243 pp.

Pałka K. 1990. Występowanie Cletis maculosa (Gern.) (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) w Polsce. Przegl. zool. 34 (1): 125-128.

Perez De-Gregorio J.-J., Munoz J., Rondos M. 2001. Atlas fotografico de los lepidopteros macroheteroceros ibero-baleares 2 (Lepidoptera). Argania editio, Barcelona, 210 pp.

   
Author  Łukasz Przybyłowicz
   
 

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