Charissa mucidaria (Hübner, [1799])

Host plants:
The larvae feed polyphagously on herbs of the rocks and sparse grasslands in between such as Sedum, Sanguisorba, Asplenium an others.

Habitat:
Charissa mucidaria usually inhabits rocky slopes and also single rocks in dry and warm environments from the lowlands up to medium-high altitudes.

Life cycle:
The larvae hibernate. I recorded them along rocks and large stones already in early March 2023 (Sierra de Gredos, 600m, already mature). The moths occur in several generations from spring to autumn, in Andalusia near the coast also in early winter.

Remarks:
Charissa mucidaria occurs in NW-Africa, the Iberian Peninsula, the southern two thirds of France, in NW- and S-Italy and the southern Balkans, presumably also in Turkey.