British Insects: the Genera of Lepidoptera-Noctuidae
British Insects: the Genera of Lepidoptera-Noctuidae |
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Head rough. Head without a frontal tuft. Eyes glabrous; not ciliated. Antennae of males ciliate. Tongue well developed. Labial palps short to medium; porrect to ascending.
Wingspan 28–40 mm. Forewings ferrugineous or yellow-brown; ochreous, or orange, or light brown, or brown; neither green nor greenish tinged; neither purplish nor rosy marked or tinged; plain, or patterned transversely, or complexly patterned; the patterning well marked; reniform defined; orbicular defined; claviform defined, or undefined. Hindwings fuscous; plain, or terminally darkened; 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 rear). Middle tibiae without spines. Posterior tibiae without spines. Abdomen crested.
Living adults found August and September.
Larvae, pupae. Larvae feeding on the lower stems of grasses; pupating in the soil.
General comments. Head, palps and collar rich red-brown, thorax darker, abdomen grey-brown or reddish towards the tip.
British representation. 4 species; South-east England, Central-southern England, South-west England, English Midlands, Northern England, Southern Scotland, Northern Scotland, Wales, and Ireland; crinanensis (Crinan Ear), fucosa paludis (Saltern Ear), lucens (Large Ear), oculea (The Ear).
Classification. Amphipyrinae.
Illustrations: • The British species, and 6 related genera. • Amphipyrinae: Kirby 36 (part) and 38 (part).
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’.
