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Chersotis fimbriola is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in number of isolated populations from Austria to Spain, Morocco, Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Turkmenistan.

Chersotis fimbriola
13f
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Noctuidae
Genus:
Chersotis
Species:
C. fimbriola
Binomial name
Chersotis fimbriola
(Esper, [1803])
Synonyms
  • Phalaena (Noctua) fimbriola Esper, [1803]
  • Agrotis raddei Christoph, 1877
  • Noctua maravignae Duponchel, 1826
  • Agrotis (Rhyacia) amaliae Fernández, 1931

Description


Warren (1914) states R. fimbriola Esp. (= maravigna Dup.) Forewing dark greyish ochreous, often much suffused with fuscous; stigmata of the ground colour, often indistinct, the upper two always separated by a fuscous black blotch forming part of a thick median shade; submarginal line preceded by a blackish shade; the raddei. marginal area fuscous; hindwing fuscous brown. — The ground colour of ab. raddei Chr. (13 f) is paler and brighter, the dark suffusion less, and the markings clearer; the underside likewise much paler. — A south European species, found in France, Spain, N. Italy, Switzerland, and Hungary; occurring also in Western Asia, in Armenia, Asia Minor, Syria, Persia and W. Turkestan, these Asiatic examples being usually the form raddei. Larva dark brownish grey; dorsal and subdorsal lines paler: between them on each segment two oblique black streaks; similar streaks also between the subdorsal and the conspicuous dark lateral lines; thoracic plate brown with 3 white streaks; head shining brown; on a variety of lowgrowing plants.


Subspecies



Biology


Adults are on wing from June to August. There is one generation per year.

The larvae feed on various herbaceous plants.


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