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Charelia Sodovsky
Adults. Head rough. Eyes hairy; not ciliated. Antennae of males ciliate. Labial palps short; porrect (the terminal joint with bristle-like scales).
Wingspan 24–32 mm. Forewings smoky grey, blackish or bright reddish brown; complexly patterned; the patterning well marked; reniform defined; orbicular defined; claviform defined, or undefined. Hindwings yellow, or white to whitish; conspicuously patterned (with a contrasty, dark or blackish terminal band); with a clear discal mark, or 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 with spines to without spines. Abdomen more or less crested.
Living adults found May to July.
Larvae, pupae. Larvae posteriorly rounded; feeding on various Ericaceae; pupating on the surface of the ground.
British representation. 3 species; South-east England, Central-southern England, South-west England, English Midlands, Northern England, Southern Scotland, Northern Scotland, Wales, and Ireland; A. cordigera (Small Dark Yellow Underwing), A. melanopa (Broad-bordered White Underwing), A. myrtilli (Beautiful Yellow Underwing).
Hadeninae.
Illustrations. • Hadeninae: Anarta myrtilli (Beautiful Yellow Underwing: B. Ent. 145). • Anarta myrtilli: B. Ent. 145, legend+text. • Anarta myrtilli: B. Ent. 145, text cont.. • Hadeninae: A. melanopa and A. cordigera, with related genera: Newman. 1(a) and (b), ANARTA myrtillae (Beautiful Yellow Underwing); 2, ANARTA melanopa (Broad-bordered White Underwing); 3, ANARTA cordigera (Small Dark Yellow Underwing); 4, Discestra trifolii (The Nutmeg); 5(a) and (b), Polia nebulosa (Grey Arches, normal forms); 5(c) and (d), Polia nebulosa (Grey Arches, varieties); 6, Polia trimaculosa (Silvery Arches); 7, Polia bombycina (Pale-shining Brown); 8, Pachetra sagittigera britannica (Feathered Ear); 9, Sideridis albicolon (White Colon); 10, Melanchra persicariae (The Dot); 11, Hada plebeja (The Shears); 12, Heliophobus reticulata (Bordered Gothic); 13, Mamestra brassicae (Cabbage Moth). • Acontiinae, Amphipyrinae, Hadeninae and Heliothidinae: Kirby. ACONTIINAE. 13, Acontia lucida (Pale Shoulder); 17, Eublemma minutata (Scarce Marbled); 18, Deltote bankiana (Silver Barred); 19, Eustrotia uncula (Silver Hook); 20, Lithacodia deceptoria (Pretty Marbled); 21, Lithacodia pygarga (Marbled White Spot); 22, Emmelia trabealis (Spotted Sulphur). AMPHIPYRINAE. 5, Panemeria tenebrata (Small Yellow Underwing). HADENINAE. 3, ANARTA myrtilli (Beautiful Yellow Underwing); 4, ANARTA cordigera (Small Dark Yellow Underwing). HELIOTHIDINAE. 8. Heliothis viriplaca (Marbled Clover); 9, Protoschinia scutosa (Spotted Clover); 10, Heliothis peltigera (Bordered Straw); 11, Periphanes delphinii (Pease Blossom); 12, Pyrrhia umbra (Bordered Sallow) . CATOCALINAE. 28, Minucia lunaris (Lunar Double Stripe). From Kirby 42.
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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’.
