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Chersotis multangula
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Chersotis multangula

Chersotis multangula is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the mountainous areas (on heights of over 2,000 meters) of Central and Southern Europe, Morocco, Turkey, Armenia, Iran, Syria, Lebanon and the Caucasus.

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Description

The wingspan is 32–38 mm. Warren (1914) states R. multangula Hbn. Forewing greyish fuscous; the cell, the base of claviform stigma, and a streak from its tip to outer fine blackish; termen darker, with the submarginal line indistinct; hindwing sub- brownish grey. The male is paler and smaller, with hindwing whiter. — ab. subrectangula Stgr.[Chersotis rectangula (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) C. r. subrectangula (Staudinger, 1871)] (= rectanrectangula Boisd. part) is merely a darker form; ab. dissoluta Stgr. (lOh) is greyer and paler, the dark markings by contrast more conspicuous. The species occurs throughout S. Europe, in Asia Minor, Armenia, Persia, Turkestan, Tibet and Amurland. Larva earth-brown; dorsal line white with conspicuous black edges; subdorsal fines dull, pale, with an elongate black spot on each segment; lateral lines whitish; spiracles black;thoracic shield brown with 3 white lines; head blackish brown with two dark streaks; said to feed on Galium.

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