title: Chersotis elegans
text: # Chersotis elegans
  
  Chersotis elegans is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the mountains of Spain, Greece, Turkey, the Caucasus, Lebanon, Israel and western central Asia.
  
  ## Description
  
  Warren (1914) states R. elegans Ev. (— grammiptera Bsd., cancellata Frr.) Forewing pale brown, the veins whitish: lines black and white; stigmata margined with white and black, the claviform large and pointed, the reniform angled inwards on median nervure; submarginal line white preceded by a row of black wedge-shaped marks: hindwing of male white with slight subterminal brownish band of female more or less suffused with fuscous. A South European species, found in Spain, France, Greece, and S. Russia; widely spread in W. Asia, and also in Siberia and Turkestan.
  
  ## Subspecies
  
  * Chersotis elegans elegans
  * Chersotis elegans hermonis (Israel)
  
  ## Biology
  
  Adults are on wing from July to September. There is one generation per year.
  
  