Hoplodrina superstes (Ochsenheimer, 1816)

Host plants:
The larvae are polyphagous in the ground-near herb layer.

Habitat:
Hoplodrina superstes inhabits dry and warm, stony or rocky nutrient-poor grasslands with sparse vegetation.

Life cycle:
The larva hibernates and is most often mature already in April. I recorded it in a stony limestone grassland on the eastern Swabian Alb on 01/04/2008. The moths occur between mid-June and late August.

Endangerment: endangered

Endangerment factors:
Hoplodrina superstes has already declined together with its habitats in extra-Alpine Central Europe.

Remarks:
Hoplodrina superstes occurs from Morocco across South and Central Europe to Iran.