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Chersotis fimbriola

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Chersotis fimbriola
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
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

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.

Description

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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 low-growing plants.

Subspecies

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  • Chersotis fimbriola fimbriola (Austria, Hungary)[1]
  • Chersotis fimbriola baloghi (northern Hungary, southern Slovakia)[1]
  • Chersotis fimbriola vallensis (Wallis (Piemont), Alpes-Maritimes)
  • Chersotis fimbriola hackeri (south-eastern France)
  • Chersotis fimbriola iberica (Spain)
  • Chersotis fimbriola iminenia (the High Atlas in Morocco)
  • Chersotis fimbriola rifensis (Middle Atlas and Rif in Morocco)
  • Chersotis fimbriola maravignae (Sicily)
  • Chersotis fimbriola forsteri (Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece)
  • Chersotis fimbriola bohatschi (Turkey, Armenia)
  • Chersotis fimbriola zernyi (southern Turkey, Israel, Iraq, south-eastern Iran)
  • Chersotis fimbriola raddei (northern Iran, eastern Armenia, Turkmenistan)

Biology

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

The larvae feed on various herbaceous plants.

References

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  1. ^ a b Habel, Jan Christian; Assmann, Thorsten (2009-12-03). Relict Species: Phylogeography and Conservation Biology. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 74. ISBN 978-3-540-92160-8.
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