Chersotis alpestris
Chersotis alpestris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Chersotis
Species:
C. alpestris
Binomial name
Chersotis alpestris
(Boisduval, 1837)
Synonyms
  • Agrotis alpestris Boisduval, [1837]
  • Rhyacia alpestris ponticola Draudt, 1936

Chersotis alpestris is a moth of the family Noctuidae.[1]

Subspecies

  • Chersotis alpestris alpestris (Alps, Apennines, Pyrenees)
  • Chersotis alpestris ponticola (Draudt, 1936) (south-western Russia, southern Urals, Turkey, Caucasus, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Syria, north-western Iran)

Description

Chersotis alpestris has a wingspan of 28–34 millimetres (1.1–1.3 in). Hind wings are light brown in males, while in females they are medium or dark brown. The underside of the wings is usually yellowish brown, but in the hind wings the underside is often whitish.[2] Seitz states R. alpestris Bsd. (ocellina Hbn., nec. Schiff.) (Ilk). Hardly separable from the preceding, [R. ocellina Schiff] but the reniform stigma less produced and not touching orbicular; occurs in nearly the same localities as ocellina ; both species are dayfliers and are found at rest on flower heads.[3]

Biology

Caterpillars are polyphagous on low plants.[4]

Distribution

This species can be found in Europe (Andorra, Austria, Bulgaria, East European Russia, France, Italy, South European Russia, Spain, Switzerland and Ukraine) and eastward into Asia.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Biolib
  2. ↑ Lepiforum
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Paolo Mazzei, Daniel Morel, Raniero Panfili Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa
  5. ↑ Fauna europaea

Bibliography

  • Erstbeschreibung: BOISDUVAL (1834): Icones historique des lépidoptères d'Europe nouveaux ou peu connus 2: 1-192, pl. 47-84. Paris (Roret).
  • COWAN, C. F. (1970): Boisduval's Icones Historiques des Lépidoptères d'Europe 1832-1841. — Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 5 (4): 291-302
  • Dufay (Claude), 1984.- Chersotis oreina n. sp., noctuelle méconnue des montagnes de l'Europe occidentale (Noctuidae, Noctuinae). Nota Lepidopterologica, 7 (1) : 8-20.
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