Chersotis elegans

Chersotis elegans is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the mountains of Spain, Greece, Turkey, the Caucasus, Lebanon, Israel and western central Asia.

Chersotis elegans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Chersotis
Species:
C. elegans
Binomial name
Chersotis elegans
(Eversmann, 1837)
Synonyms
  • Agrotis elegans Eversmann, 1837
  • Agrotis grammiptera Rambur, 1839
  • Hadena cancellata Freyer, 1840
  • Agrotis (Rhyacia) elegans aragonensis Schwingenschuss, 1962

Description

Warren (1914) states R. elegans Ev. (— grammiptera Bsd., cancellata Frr.) Forewing pale brown, the veins whitish: lines black and white; stigmata margined with white and black, the claviform large and pointed, the reniform angled inwards on median nervure; submarginal line white preceded by a row of black wedge-shaped marks: hindwing of male white with slight subterminal brownish band of female more or less suffused with fuscous. A South European species, found in Spain, France, Greece, and S. Russia; widely spread in W. Asia, and also in Siberia and Turkestan.[1]

Subspecies
  • Chersotis elegans elegans
  • Chersotis elegans hermonis (Israel)

Biology

Adults are on wing from July to September. There is one generation per year.

References
  1. Warren, W. in Seitz, A. Ed., 1914 Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde, Verlag Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart Band 3: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen eulenartigen Nachtfalter, 1914 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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