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Adults. Head rough. Face without any conspicuous prominence. Eyes glabrous; not ciliated. Antennae of males ciliate. Labial palps short; porrect to ascending.
Wingspan 30–38 mm. Head, collar and abdomen pale brown, thorax variegated with umber. Forewings pale brown, with darker brown markings; complexly patterned; the patterning obscure (obscurely patterned with streaks and faint lines); reniform defined; orbicular defined; claviform undefined. Hindwings whitish-fuscous, fuscous, and grey (grey-whitish, termen interruptedly dark fuscous); plain; with a clear discal mark; transversely lined (via a dark, median line), or 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 June.
Larvae, pupae. Larvae posteriorly humped; feeding on various, unrelated Dicot herbs; pupating on the surface of the ground, or in the soil (on or just below the surface).
British representation. 1 species; South-east England, Central-southern England, South-west England, English Midlands, Northern England, Southern Scotland, Northern Scotland, Wales, and Ireland (common); A. putris (The Flame).
Noctuinae.
Illustrations. • Noctuinae: Axylia putris (The Flame), and 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).
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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’.
