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Xylomyges Guenée
Adults. Head rough. Eyes hairy; not ciliated. Antennae of males ciliate. Labial palps short; porrect.
Wingspan 36–42 mm. The dark-crested thorax coloured like the forewings, the abdomen similar or paler, but darker than the hindwings. Forewings pale to dark fuscous or smoky grey; complexly patterned; the patterning well marked to obscure; reniform defined, or undefined; orbicular defined, or undefined; claviform defined, or undefined. Hindwings white; plain (with dark veins); 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. Thorax crested (front and back). Posterior tibiae without spines (?). Abdomen more or less crested.
Living adults found April to June.
Larvae, pupae. Larvae feeding on leaves of diverse Dicots - Prunus, Lotus, Polygonum, etc.; pupating in the soil (near the surface).
British representation. 1 species; South-east England and English Midlands; conspicillaris (The Silver Cloud).
Hadeninae.
Illustrations. • E. spicillaris (The Silver Cloud), with Panolis and Hadena: Newman. 1(a)-(e), Hadena perplexa (Tawny Shears, various forms); 2, Hadena perplexa capsophila (The Pod lover); 3, Hadena caesia mananii (The Grey); 4, Hadena rivularis (The Campion); 5(a) and (b), Hadena confusa (Marbled Coronet); 6(a), Hadena bicruris (The Lychnis, typical form); 6(b), Hadena bicruris (unusual variety); 7(a) and (b), Hadena luteago barrettii (Barrett's Marbled Coronet); 8, Hadena albimacula (The White Spot); 9(a)-(c), Egira spicillaris (The Silver Cloud); 10, Panolis flammea (Pine Beauty). From Newman, 1869. • Hadeninae: Kirby. HADENINAE. 1, Orthosia gothica (Hebrew Character); 2, Orthosia miniosa Blossom Underwing); 3, Orthosia cruda (Small Quaker); 4, Orthosia cerasi (Common Quaker); 5, Orthosia gracilis (Powdered Quaker); 6, Orthosia incerta (Clouded Drab); 7, Orthosia munda (Twin-spot Quaker); 8, Panolis flammea (Pine Beauty); 12, Mythimna pallens (Common Wainscot); 13, Mythimna comma (Shoulder-striped Wainscot); 14, Mythimna conigera (Brown-line Bright Eye); 15, Mythimna L-album; 16, Egira spicillaris (Silver Cloud). From Kirby 36, 37 and 38.
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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’.
