British Insects: the Genera of Lepidoptera-Noctuidae
British Insects: the Genera of Lepidoptera-Noctuidae |
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Xylomyges Guenée.
Head rough. Eyes hairy; not ciliated. Antennae of males ciliate. Labial palps short; porrect.
Wingspan 36–42 mm. Forewings pale to dark fuscous or smoky grey; complexly patterned; the patterning well marked to obscure; reniform defined, or undefined; orbicular defined, or undefined; claviform defined, or undefined. Hindwings white; plain (with dark veins); 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 more or less crested.
Living adults found April to June.
Larvae, pupae. Larvae feeding on leaves of diverse Dicots - Prunus, Lotus, Polygonum, etc.; pupating in the soil (near the surface).
General comments. The dark-crested thorax coloured like the forewings, the abdomen similar or paler, but darker than the hindwings.
British representation. 1 species; South-east England and English Midlands; conspicillaris (The Silver Cloud).
Classification. Hadeninae.
Illustrations: • The British species, with Panolis and Hadena. • Hadeninae: Kirby 36 (1–8), 37 (16) and 38 (12–15).
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’.
