Chersotis fimbriola

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
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

 * Chersotis fimbriola fimbriola (Austria, Hungary)
 * Chersotis fimbriola baloghi (northern Hungary, southern Slovakia)
 * 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
Adults are on wing from June to August. There is one generation per year.

The larvae feed on various herbaceous plants.