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Including Paradrina Boursin
Adults. Head rough. Eyes glabrous; not ciliated. Antennae of males ciliate. Labial palps short, or medium (rather distant); porrect to ascending.
Wingspan 26–34 mm. Head, thorax and abdomen coloured like the forewings, or the abdomen more nearly matching the pale hindwings. Forewings dingy grey-brown (C. morpheus), or light yellowish-ochreous brown; ochreous, or light brown, or pale fuscous, or fuscous; neither green nor greenish tinged; neither purplish nor rosy marked or tinged; patterned transversely (with a complex pattern of transverse lines and rows of dots); the patterning well marked to obscure; reniform defined; orbicular defined; claviform undefined. Hindwings white to whitish, or whitish-fuscous; plain, or terminally darkened; 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. Middle tibiae without spines. Posterior tibiae without spines; rough-scaled. Abdomen not crested.
Living adults found June to August.
Larvae, pupae. Larvae posteriorly rounded; feeding on foliage and seeds of various Dicot herbs and grasses, with C. clavipalpis sometimes being a pest in grain; pupating on the surface of the ground, or in the soil (then just below the surface).
British representation. 3 species; South-east England, Central-southern England, South-west England, English Midlands, Northern England, Southern Scotland, Northern Scotland, Wales, and Ireland; C. clavipalpis (Pale Mottled Willow, = Paradrina), C. flavirena (Lorimer’s Rustic, = Paradrina, an apparent vagrant of this southern European and Asian species found in Middlesex in 1967), C. morpheus (Mottled Rustic).
Amphipyrinae.
Illustrations. • C. morpheus (Mottled Rustic) and C. clavipalpis (Pale Mottled Willow), with 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’.
