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Adults. Head rough (-haired). Eyes glabrous; ciliated. Antennae of males ciliate (double-fasciculate). Tongue poorly developed.
Wingspan 42–48 mm. Head, thorax and abdomen coloured like the forewings. Forewings ochreous grey, more ochreous in males; patterned transversely; the patterning obscure; reniform defined; orbicular defined; claviform defined to undefined. Hindwings fuscous and ochreous (pale ochreous, fuscous-sprinkled); fairly plain, or conspicuously patterned (faintly to fairly conspicuously darker-banded); without a clear discal mark; transversely lined (or narrowly twice banded); exhibiting vein 5. Vein 5 of the hindwings weak; arising nearer to vein 6 than to vein 4. Thorax not crested (densely hairy); densely hairy beneath. Posterior tibiae without spines. Abdomen not crested.
Living adults found October to December, or January to March (hibernating).
Larvae, pupae. Larvae feeding on Heracleum roots; 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 (local, commoner northwards); templi (Brindled Ochre).
Cuculliinae.
Illustrations. • Dasypolia templi (Brindled Ochre): photo. Dasypolia templi (Brindled Ochre).
Above: Buxton, Derbys., 20th November 1949. Below: Waterhouses, nr. Leek, Staffs., November 1957. Both specimens found on dry-stone walls in moorland. From Watson's collection. • D. templi (Brindled Ochre), and related genera: Newman. 1(a) and (b), Cleoceris viminalis (Minor Shoulder-knot); 2, Leucochlaena oditis (Beautiful Gothic); 3(a)-(c), Dryobotodes eremita (Brindled Green); 4(a)-(c), Dasypolia templi (Brindled Ochre); 5, Lithomoia solidaginis (Golden-rod Brindle); 6, Valeria oleagina (Green-brindled Dot); 7(a) and (b), Aporophyla australis pascuea (Feathered Brindle); 8(a) and (b), Aporophyla lutulenta lutulenta (Deep-brown Dart); 9(a) and (b), Aporophyla nigra (Black Rustic); 10(a) and (b), Allophyes oxyacanthae (Green-brindled Crescent); 11, Trigonophora flammea (Flame Brocade); 12(a) and (b), Dichonia aprilina (Merveille-du-jour). From Newman, 1869. • Cuculliinae (Dasypolia templi): Kirby. Dasypolia templi (Brindled Ochre).
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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’.
