Dodia is a genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of woolly bear moths (family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Arctiidae

Arctiidae

Arctiidae is a large and diverse family of moths with around 11,000 species found all over the world, including 6,000 neotropical species. This family includes the groups commonly known as tiger moths , which usually have bright colours, footmen , lichen moths and wasp moths...

) found in subarctic

Subarctic

The Subarctic is a region in the Northern Hemisphere immediately south of the true Arctic and covering much of Alaska, Canada, the north of Scandinavia, Siberia, and northern Mongolia...

 tundra

Tundra

In physical geography, tundra is a biome where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons. The term tundra comes through Russian тундра from the Kildin Sami word tūndâr "uplands," "treeless mountain tract." There are three types of tundra: Arctic tundra, alpine...

 and taiga

Taiga

Taiga , also known as the boreal forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests.Taiga is the world's largest terrestrial biome. In North America it covers most of inland Canada and Alaska as well as parts of the extreme northern continental United States and is known as the Northwoods...

 ecosystem

Ecosystem

An ecosystem is a biological environment consisting of all the organisms living in a particular area, as well as all the nonliving , physical components of the environment with which the organisms interact, such as air, soil, water and sunlight....

s. They belong to the tribe

Tribe (biology)

In biology, a tribe is a taxonomic rank between family and genus. It is sometimes subdivided into subtribes.Some examples include the tribes: Canini, Acalypheae, Hominini, Bombini, and Antidesmeae.-See also:* Biological classification* Rank...

 Callimorphini

Callimorphini

The Callimorphini are a tribe of woolly bear moths in the subfamily Arctiinae. They are sometimes merged into the Arctiini as a subtribe Callimorphina. Nyctemerini and Amerilini are closely related tribes....

 of subfamily Arctiinae

Arctiinae

The Arctiinae are a subfamily of moths.-Systematics:The systematics of the Arctiinae are in need of revision and depends significantly on a personal view of an author. In any case, Arctiinae is a monophyletic group with a clear autapomorphic character - a presence of anal glands in females. On the...

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

Moth

A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...

s (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

Larentiinae

Larentiinae moths contain roughly 5,800 species and occur mostly in the temperate regions of the world. They are generally considered a subfamily of the geometer moth family and divided into a few large or good-sized tribes, and numerous very small or even monotypic ones which might not always be...

 geometer moth

Geometer moth

The geometer moths or Geometridae are a family of the order Lepidoptera...

s (Geometridae), e.g. the Operophterini

Operophterini

Operophterini is a tribe of geometer moths under subfamily Larentiinae.-References:*...

, rather than the more typical Callimorphini. Like in the former, flightless females are known to occur in Dodia.

Species

Long held to contain only 2 species

Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...

, 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:

• Dodia albertae
  Dodia albertae
  Dodia albertae is a moth of the Arctiidae family. It is found in Canada, Siberia south to Mongolia, west to Polar Urals. See the subspecies section for more information.The wingspan is about...
  
  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
  Dodia tarandus
  Dodia tarandus is a moth of the Arctiidae family. It is found in boreal black spruce bogs and adjacent open pine uplands from central Alberta eastward to Manitoba.The length of the forewings is about for males and for females....
  
  Schmidt et Macaulay, 2009
• Dodia transbaikalensis Tshistjakov, 1988 (sometimes in D. kononenkoi)