Chersotis andereggii

Chersotis andereggii
	Illustration from The Macrolepidoptera of the World
	Chersotis andereggii. Mounted specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Chersotis
Species:	C. andereggii
Binomial name
	Chersotis andereggii; (Boisduval, [1837])
Synonyms
	Agrotis andereggii Boisduval, [1837] ; Euxoa andereggii (Boisduval, [1837]) ; Agrotis exclamans Eversmann, 1841;

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

Subspecies

Chersotis andereggii andereggi (Alps)
Chersotis andereggii arcana (southern Finland, northern Estonia)
Chersotis andereggii subtilis (Himalayas (Ladakh))

Description

Chersotis andereggii has a wingspan of 29–32 mm. These relatively small moths are generally greyish-brown, with large dark orbicular and claviform markings.^[2] Warren states ab. andereggii Boisd. of R. rectangula is darker, without the grey irroration, the lines not showing paler.^[3]

Biology

Adults are on wing from the end of July to the first half of August. The larvae feed on Lychnis, Melilotus and Trifolium species.^[4]

Distribution

This species can be found in Europe (Bulgaria, East European Russia, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Switzerland),^[5] in the southern Urals, Turkey, north-western Iran, Transcaucasia, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Kirghizia, the Altai mountains, the Sayan Mountains, Baikal, Kamchatka, Mongolia, the Himalaya, the Alps.

Habitat

These moths live in alpine meadows and steppe slopes.^[2]

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
HUEMER, P. (2013): Die Schmetterlinge Österreichs (Lepidoptera). Systematische und faunistische Checkliste. – 304 S. (Studiohefte 12); Innsbruck (Tiroler Landesmuseen-Betriebsgesellschaft m.b.H.).

References

^ Biolib
^ ^a ^b K Mikkola, J D Lafontaine, P Grotenfelt A revision of the Holarctic Chersotis andereggii complex (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)
^ 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 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ Funet
^ Fauna europaea

External links

Noctuinae (Noctuidae) collection of Siberian Zoological Museum
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[1] Biolib

[AA-2] K Mikkola, J D Lafontaine, P Grotenfelt A revision of the Holarctic Chersotis andereggii complex (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)

[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 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

[4] Funet

[5] Fauna europaea

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