Condica viscosa is a species of moth in the family Noctuidae. It was described by Christian Friedrich Freyer in 1831. It is found from southern Europe[1] and North Africa[2] to Arabia and the southern parts of western Asia (including Asia Minor, Israel and Iran). The habitat consists of lowland areas near the coast, including dry slopes, road side verges, dry river beds or fallow land.[3]
The wingspan is 25–29 mm.Warren (1914) states
H. viscosa Frr. (= implexa Tr.) (47 b). Forewing dull greyish redbrown; the lines and edges of the stigmata marked indistinctly by a few pale scales; hindwing reddish brown, darker in the female. Recorded from Spain, Sicily, and the Canary Islands, and from Syria.
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Adults are on wing from May to June and in October.[5]
^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.
