British Insects: the Genera of Lepidoptera-Noctuidae
British Insects: the Genera of Lepidoptera-Noctuidae |
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Head rough. Eyes glabrous; ciliated. Antennae of males ciliate.
Wingspan 38–48 mm. Forewings dull to reddish brown (dark brown in a common variety) marbled and sprinkled with green scales; greenish tinged; complexly patterned; the patterning well marked; exhibiting metallic-enamelled effects (metallic green-suffused); reniform defined; orbicular defined; claviform undefined. Hindwings fuscous; plain; without a clear discal mark; without transverse lines; exhibiting vein 5. Vein 5 of the hindwings weak; arising nearer to vein 6 than to vein 4. Thorax crested (front and back). Posterior tibiae without spines. Abdomen crested (with several crests).
Living adults found September and October.
Larvae, pupae. Larvae posteriorly humped (with a white-marked, divided hump); feeding on woody Rosaceae; pupating on the surface of the ground.
General comments. Head, thorax and abdomen grey-brown, the abdominal crest darker.
British representation. 1 species; South-east England, Central-southern England, South-west England, English Midlands, Northern England, Southern Scotland, Northern Scotland, Wales, and Ireland; oxyacanthae (Green-brindled Crescent).
Classification. Cuculliinae.
Illustrations: • Allophyes oxyacanthae, light and melanic (photos). • Allophyes oxyacanthae, and 9 related genera. • Cuculliinae (1–6, 10–11, 22–23); Amphipyrinae (7–9, 12–21, 25–26), Noctuinae (24): Kirby 40. • Cuculliinae (1–12), Plusiinae (13–26): Kirby 41.
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-Noctuidae. Version: 9th June 2008. http://delta-intkey.com’.
