British Insects: the Genera of Lepidoptera-Noctuidae
British Insects: the Genera of Lepidoptera-Noctuidae |
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Hapalotis Hübner.
Head smooth. Head without a frontal tuft. Eyes glabrous; not ciliated. Antennae of males ciliate.
Wingspan 19–23 mm. Forewings rosy, creamy grey; rosy marked or tinged; complexly patterned; the patterning well marked; reniform defined; orbicular undefined; claviform undefined. Hindwings pale, dingy fuscous, or whitish brownish; plain; with 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 slightly crested (posteriorly). Middle tibiae without spines. Posterior tibiae without spines; with appressed scales. Abdomen basally crested.
Living adults found June and July.
Larvae, pupae. Larvae feeding on flowers of Rubus, Potentilla, Rumex; pupating on the surface of the ground.
General comments. Head, collar and centre of thorax brown, sides and back of thorax pale, the abdomen coloured like the hindwings.
British representation. 1 species; South-east England; venustula (The Rosy Marbled).
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’.
