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Adults. Antennae of males simple. Face rough.
Wingspan 25–27 mm. Forewings pale greyish-ochreous, with dark striae; with a clear discal mark (this dark, often pale-ringed); with a distinct median band to without a median band (the band darker, or lightened within and scarcely distinguished). The outer margin of the hindwings smooth. Hindwings conspicuously patterned; pale greyish ochreous; predominantly pale ochreous, or pale fuscous; not predominantly green, yellow, or black; without a clear discal mark; with rather numerous, quite dark lines.
Vein 10 of the forewings arising independently of 9; arising independently, anastomosing with 11 and 9 to form a double areole. Hindwings exhibiting a tubular vein 5. Vein 5 of the hindwings arising from about the middle of the transverse vein, or arising from below the middle of the transverse vein (?). Vein 8 of the hindwings approximated to or anastomosed with the upper margin of the cell to the middle or beyond. Hindwing veins 6 and 7 stalked.
Posterior tibiae of males 4-spurred.
Early stages. Larvae feeding on Galium?.
British representation. 1 species (adventive); East English Midlands (Cambridgeshire - extinct?). Living adults found April and August (double brooded). C. polygrammata (Many-lined Moth).
Subfamily. Larentiinae.
Illustrations. • British Epirrhoe, Costaconvexa, Camptogramma, Entephria, Larentia, Anticlea, Mesoleuca, Pelurga, Lampropteryx, Cosmorhoe, Nebula: Newman 1869. 1, Epirrhoe tristata (Small Argent and Sable); 2, Epirrhoe alternata (Common Carpet); 3, Epirrhoe rivata (Wood Carpet); 4, Epirrhoe galiata (Galium Carpet); 5, Costaconvexa polygrammata (The Many-lined Moth); 6a and 6b, Camptogramma bilineata (The Yellow Shell); 7, Entephria caesiata (Grey Mountain Carpet); 8, Entephria flavicinctata (Yellow-ringed Carpet); 9, Cosmorhoe ocellata (The Purple Bar); 10, Anticlea badiata (The Shoulder Stripe); 11, Anticlea derivata (The Streamer); 12, Larentia clavaria (The Mallow); 13, Mesoleuca albicillata (The Beautiful Carpet); 14, Nebula salicata latentaria (Striped Twin-spot Carpet); 15, Pelurga comitata (The Dark Spinach); 16, Lampropteryx suffumata (The Water Carpet, (a) typical and (b), ab. piceata). From Newman (1869).
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Cite this publication as: ‘Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2003 onwards. Insects of Britain and Ireland: the genera of Lepidoptera-Geometridae. Version: 14th February 2021. delta-intkey.com’.
