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Madopa Stephens
Adults. Head loosely scaled. Head with a frontal tuft. Eyes glabrous; not ciliated. Antennae of males strongly ciliate. Labial palps medium to long; porrect to ascending.
Wingspan 28–33 mm. Thorax grey, abdomen coloured like the hindwings. Forewings grey; pale grey, or grey; patterned transversely; the patterning well marked (with three light-edged, dark red transverse lines); reniform undefined; orbicular undefined; claviform undefined. Hindwings pale fuscous; more or less plain; without a clear discal mark; transversely lined (only near the hind margin); exhibiting vein 5. Vein 5 of the hindwings strong; arising nearer to vein 4 than to vein 6; parallel with vein 4. Thorax not crested. Middle tibiae without spines (?). Posterior tibiae with spines; with appressed scales. Abdomen not crested.
Living adults found June and July.
Larvae, pupae. Larvae feeding on Salicaceae; pupating on vegetative parts of the foodplant.
British representation. 1 species; South-east England (scarce and local, perhaps extinct); salicalis (Lesser Belle).
Rivulinae.
Illustrations. • C. salicalis (Lesser Belle), with Herminiinae, Hypeninae and Rivulinae: Leech, 1886. NOCTUIDAE-RIVULINAE. 1. Colobochyla salicalis (Lesser Belle). 9, Rivula sericealis(Straw Dot). HYPENINAE. 2, Hypena proboscidalis (Snout); 3, Hypena rostralis (Buttoned Snout); 4, Hypena crassalis (Beautiful Snout. 4, Schrankia taenialis (White-line Snout); 6, Schrankia costaestrigalis (Pinion-streaked Snout). 7, Hypenodes humidalis (Marsh Oblique-barred). HERMINIINAE. 8, Trisateles emortualis (Olive Crescent). 10, Paracolax tristalis (Clay Fan-foot). 11, Pechipogo strigulata (Common Fan-foot). 12, Zanclognatha tarsipennalis (The Fan-foot). Leech, 1886. • Ophiderinae and Rivulinae: Swain. 1, Tyta luctuosa (The Four-spotted); 2*, Tathorhynchus exsiccata (Levant Blackneck: Amphipyrinae); 3, Lygephila pastinum (Blackneck); 4, Lygephila cracca (Scarce Blackneck); 5, Colobochyla salicalis (Lesser Belle); 6, Rivula sericealis (Straw Dot); 7, Scoliopteryx libatrix (Herald); 8, Phytometra viridaria (Small Purple-barred); 9, Parascotia fuliginaria (Waved Black); 10, Laspeyria flexula (Beautiful Hook-tip). Swain, 1961.
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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’.
