Chersotis larixia

Chersotis larixia is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Spain, France, Switzerland, Italy and Sicily, Crete, Turkey, and east to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Syria, Iran, Lebanon, and Turkmenistan. In Europe, it is found in mountainous regions, like the Pyrenees, the Alps, and the Maritime Alps, up to heights of 2,000 meters.

Chersotis larixia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Noctuidae
Genus:
Chersotis
Species:
C. larixia
Binomial name
Chersotis larixia
(Guenée, 1852)
Synonyms
  • Agrotis larixia Guenée, 1852
  • Rhyacia larixia (Guenée, 1852)


Description

The wingspan is about 38 mm. Warren (1914) states R larixia Guen. Like elegans Ev. but with all the markings, as it were, blurred and unconcise; slightly larger in size and occurring always at a higher elevation than that species, in Europe it is found in the Alps of S. France and N. Italy : and in the Mts. of Armenia, Persia, and W. Turkestan in Asia.[1]

Subspecies
  • Chersotis larixia asiatica (Schwingenschuss, 1938) (Crete, Turkey, Iran)
  • Chersotis larixia larixia (Guenée, 1852) (south-western Europe)
  • Chersotis larixia erebina Boursin, 1940 (Azerbaijan, Iran, Russia)

Biology

Adults are on wing from June to August.

The larvae feed on various low-growing plants.

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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