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Chloantha Boisduval, Cloantha
Adults. Head rough. Eyes glabrous; not ciliated. Antennae of males ciliate. Labial palps short (the second segment bristly-scaled, the third short and almost concealed).
Wingspan 31–36 mm. Head, thorax and abdomen grey-brown. Forewings purplish-brown or -greyish; complexly patterned; the patterning well marked; reniform defined; orbicular undefined; claviform undefined. Hindwings whitish-fuscous, or fuscous; terminally darkened; with a clear discal mark; without transverse lines; exhibiting vein 5. Vein 5 of the hindwings strong (distally); arising nearer to vein 6 than to vein 4. Thorax crested (front and rear). Middle tibiae with spines. Posterior tibiae with spines. Abdomen not crested.
Living adults found in May.
Larvae, pupae. Larvae feeding on Hypericum.
British representation. 1 species, or 2 species. Status in Britain indigenous and adventive. South-east England and English Midlands (Kent and Norfolk); A. hypericae (very recent adventive or possible migrant), A. polyodon (Purple Cloud).
Amphipyrinae.
Illustrations. • Noctuinae: Actinotia polyodon and 10 related genera: Newman. 1, ACTINOTIA polyodon (The Purple Cloud); 2, Axylia putris (The Flame); 3, Rhyacia simulans (Dotted Rustic); 4, Eugnorisma glareosa (Autumnal Rustic); 5, Paradiarsia (Protolampra) sobrina (Cousin German); 6, Lycophotia porphyrea (True Lovers' Knot); 7, Ochropleura praecox (Portland Moth); 8, Ochropleura fennica (Eversmann’s Rustic); 9, Eugnorisma depuncta (Plain Clay); 10(a) and (b), Standfussiana lucernea (Northern Rustic); 11, Ochropleura flammatra (The Black Collar); 12, Ochropleura plecta (Flame Shoulder); 13, Eugraphe subrosea (Rosy Marsh Moth); 14, Spaelotis ravida (Stout Dart); 15, Graphiphora augur (Double Dart). From Newman (1869). • A. polyodon Purple Cloud), with Cuculliinae and Amphipyrinaee: Kirby. CUCULLIINAE. 1, Dryobotodes eremita (Brindled Green); 2, Dichonia aprilina (Merveille-du-Jour); 3, Lamprosticta culta; 4, Meganephria bimaculosa (Double-spot Brocade); 5, Allophyes oxyacanthae (Green-brindled Crescent); 6, Valeria oleagina (Green Brindled Dot); 10, Blepharita satura (Beautiful Arches); 11, Eremobia ochroleuca (Dusky Sallow); 22, Hyppa rectilinea (Clouded Brocade); 23, Auchmis detersa. AMPHIPYRINAE. 7, Luperina testacea (Flounced Rustic); 8, Thalophila matura (Straw Underwing); 9, Calamia tridens virens (Burren Green); 12, Apamea lateritia (Scarce Brindle); 13, Apamea monoglypha (Dark Arches); 14, Apamea lithoxylaea (Light Arches); 15, Apamea sordens (Rustic Shoulder-knot); 16, Apamea crenata (Clouded-bordered Brindle); 17, Apamea remissa (Dusky Brocade); 18, Mesapamea secalis (Common Rustic); 19, Oligia strigilis (Marbled Minor); 20, Mesoligia furuncula (Cloaked Minor); 21, Dypterygia scabriuscula (Bird's Wing); 25, Callopistria juventina; 26, Polyphaenis sericata. NOCTUINAE. 24, Actinotia polyodon (Purple Cloud). From Kirby 40, with names updated.
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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’.
