British Insects: the Genera of Lepidoptera-Geometridae
British Insects: the Genera of Lepidoptera-Geometridae | |
Calliclystis, Pasiphila Meyrick.
Adults. Antennae of males simple; shortly simply-ciliate. Face rough.
Wingspan 18–23 mm. The outer margin of the forewing convexly curved. Forewings green or whitish greenish, striated darker; predominantly green, or greenish; with a clear discal mark (this dark). Hindwings conspicuously patterned, or plain (C. v-ata); green, greenish or pale grey; with a clear discal mark (darker), or without a clear discal mark; transversely lined (the several darker lines faint in C. v-ata, sharp and wavy in the rest).
Vein 10 of the forewings arising independently of 9; arising out of 11 and anastomosing with 9 to form a simple areole. Hindwings exhibiting a tubular vein 5. Vein 5 of the hindwings arising from about the middle of the transverse vein, or arising from below the middle of the transverse vein (?). Vein 8 of the hindwings approximated to or anastomosed with the upper margin of the cell to the middle or beyond. Hindwing veins 6 and 7 stalked.
Posterior tibiae of males 4-spurred.
Early stages. Larvae feeding on flowers of Clematis, Compositae, Prunus, Vaccinium.
British representation. 4 species; South-east England, Central-southern England, South-west England, English Midlands, Northern England, Southern Scotland, Northern Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Living adults found June and July. C. chloerata (not illustrated), C. debiliata (Bilberry Pug), (C. rectangulata (Green Pug), C. v-ata (The V-pug).
Subfamily. Larentiinae.
Illustrations. • Eupithecia, Chloroclystis, Anticollix (Pugs): Newman. • Chloroclystis debiliata, C. rectangulata, C. v-ata. • Larentiinae (‘Carpets’, ‘Pugs’, etc.): Kirby 51.
To view the illustrations with detailed captions, go to the interactive key. This also offers full and partial descriptions, diagnostic descriptions, differences and similarities between taxa, lists of taxa exhibiting or lacking specified attributes, and distributions of character states within any set of taxa.
Cite this publication as: ‘Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2003 onwards. British insects: the genera of Lepidoptera-Geometridae. Version: 9th June 2008. http://delta-intkey.com’.
