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Grammesia Stephens, Meristis Hübner
Adults. Head rough. Eyes glabrous; not ciliated. Antennae of males bipectinate. Labial palps short.
Wingspan 33–40 mm. Head and thorax coloured like the forewings, abdomen like the hindwings. Forewings dingy grey to pale fuscous or somewhat ochreous; patterned transversely; the patterning well marked (plain save for three to four clear, dark transverse lines); reniform undefined; orbicular undefined; claviform undefined. Hindwings rather dark grey, or fuscous (usually darker than the forewings); plain; 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 in June.
Larvae, pupae. Larvae posteriorly rounded; feeding on Plantago and other Dicot herbs; pupating in the soil.
British representation. 1 species; South-east England, Central-southern England, South-west England, English Midlands, Northern England, Southern Scotland, Northern Scotland, Wales, and Ireland; trigrammica (Treble Lines).
Amphipyrinae.
Illustrations. • Charanyca trigrammica (Dark Treble Lines): B. Ent. 651. • Charanyca trigrammica: B. Ent. 651, legend+text. • Charanyca trigrammica: B. Ent. 651, text cont.. • C. trigrammica (Treble Lines), and 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’.
