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Adults. Head smooth. Eyes glabrous; not ciliated. Antennae of males ciliate. Labial palps medium to long; porrect to ascending (curved, the second segment scaly and the third naked and filiform).
Wingspan 24–30 mm. Head, thorax and the (for a noctuid) unusually slender abdomen grey-brown. Forewings grey-brown; fuscous; patterned transversely (transversely 3-lined, and with a line of dots between the two outer continuous lines); the patterning well marked; reniform defined (represented as a cloudy spot), or undefined; orbicular undefined; claviform undefined. Hindwings whitish, or fuscous; plain to terminally darkened; with a clear discal mark to 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 not crested. 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 Rumex, Serratula tinctoria, Poterium sanguisorba, etc.
British representation. 1 species; Central-southern England and South-west England; A. caliginosa (The Reddish Buff).
Amphipyrinae.
Illustrations. • A. caliginosa (The Reddish Buff), and 14 related genera: Newman. 1, Panemeria tenebrata (Small Yellow Underwing); 2, Elaphria venustula (The Rosy Marbled); 3, Archanara geminipuncta (Twin-spotted Wainscot); 4(a) and (b), Archanara dissoluta (Brown-veined Wainscot); 5, Archanara algae ( Reed Wainscot); 6, Oria musculosa (Brighton Wainscot); 7, Rhizedra lutosa (Large Wainscot); 8(a)-(d), Charanyca trigrammica (Treble Lines); 9, Arenostola phragmitidis (Fen Wainscot); 10, Hoplodrina alsines (The Uncertain); 11, Hoplodrina blanda (The Rustic); 12, Caradrina morpheus (Mottled Rustic); 13, Caradrina clavipalpis (Pale Mottled Willow); 14(a)-(d), Chilodes peltigera (Silky Wainscot); 15, Stilbia anomala (The Anomalous); 16, Spodoptera exigua (Small Mottled Willow); 17, ACOSMETIA caliginosa (The Reddish Buff); 18, Coenobia rufa (Small Rufous); 19, Athetis pallustris (Marsh Moth). 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-Noctuidae. Version: 14th February 2021. delta-intkey.com’.
