British Insects: the Genera of Lepidoptera-Noctuidae
British Insects: the Genera of Lepidoptera-Noctuidae | |
Eriopus Treitschke, Methorasa Moore.
Head without a frontal tuft. Eyes glabrous; not ciliated.
Wingspan about 25–30 mm (latreillei). Forewings C. latreillei grey with dark fuscous markings; neither green nor greenish tinged; neither purplish nor rosy marked or tinged; complexly patterned; the patterning well marked; reniform defined; orbicular defined. Hindwings white and grey; 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. Posterior tibiae without spines. Abdomen not crested.
Living adults found May to August.
Larvae, pupae. Larvae not conspicuously hairy.
General comments. Head and thorax dark fuscous, abdomen paler.
British representation. 2 species (adventives); juventina (The Latin, adventive or possible migrant), latreillei*.
Classification. Amphipyrinae.
Illustrations: • Cuculliinae (1–6, 10–11, 22–23); Amphipyrinae (7–9, 12–21, 25–26), Noctuinae (24): Kirby 40.
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’.
