British Insects: the Genera of Lepidoptera-Noctuidae
British Insects: the Genera of Lepidoptera-Noctuidae | |
Head fairly smooth (with loosely appressed scales). Eyes glabrous; not ciliated. Antennae of males ciliate. Tongue poorly developed.
Wingspan 29–36 mm. Forewings pale brown, silky-shiny; plain, or patterned transversely; the patterning well marked to obscure (plain, or with few to a complex of markings restricted to the stigmatal dots and dots mostly representing the outer line); reniform defined, or undefined; orbicular defined, or undefined; claviform undefined. Hindwings white, or whitish, or whitish-fuscous (more or less pearly); plain; with a clear discal mark, or without a clear discal mark; transversely lined, or without transverse lines (then with a short row of longitudinally elongated dots); exhibiting vein 5. Vein 5 of the hindwings weak; arising nearer to vein 6 than to vein 4. Thorax crested (anteriorly). Middle tibiae without spines. Posterior tibiae without spines; with appressed scales. Abdomen not crested.
Living adults found June and July.
Larvae, pupae. Larvae feeding on Phragmites, inside the stems, eating pith and perhaps larvae and pupae of other reed insects.
General comments. Head and thorax pale brown, abdomen silky white.
British representation. 1 species; South-east England, Central-southern England, and English Midlands; maritimus (Silky Wainscot).
Classification. Amphipyrinae.
Illustrations: • The British species, and 14 related genera.
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’.
