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Placodes Boisduval, Telesilla Herrich-Schaffer
Adults. Head rough. Eyes glabrous; ciliated. Antennae of males shortly ciliate. Tongue well developed. Labial palps medium; porrect.
Wingspan 34–38 mm. Thorax coloured like the forewings, abdomen paler and like the hindwings. Forewings somewhat olive brown and ochreous, rosy-tinged; rosy marked or tinged; complexly patterned; the patterning well marked. Hindwings light grey, or fuscous; plain (though with faintly darkened bands); without a clear discal mark; transversely lined to without transverse lines; exhibiting vein 5. Vein 5 of the hindwings weak; arising nearer to vein 6 than to vein 4; convergent on vein 4 near their bases. Thorax crested (front and back). Posterior tibiae without spines; rough-scaled. Abdomen crested.
Living adults found in June.
Larvae, pupae. Larvae feeding on Umbelliferae.
British representation. 1 species (adventive); Northern England (recorded once, in Cumberland); amethystina* (Cumberland Gem, only an unreliable record).
Amphipyrinae.
Illustrations. • E. amethystina (Cumberland Gem), with Cuculliinae and Plusiinae: Kirby. CUCULLIINAE. 1, Cucullia verbasci (Mullein Shark); 2, Cucullia asteris (Starwort Shark); 3 and 5, Cucullia umbratica (Shark); 4, Cucullia lactucae (Lettuce Shark); 5, Cucullia umbratica (Shark); 6, Cucullia chamomillae (Chamomile Shark); 7, Cucullia artemisiae (Scarce Wormwood Shark); 8, Cucullia absinthii (Wormwood Shark); 9, Cucullia argentea (Green Silver-spangle); 10, Eutelia adulatrix; 11, Allophyes oxyacanthae ab. capucina (Green-brindled Crescent, var.); 12, Eucarta amethystina (Cumberland Gem). PLUSIINAE. 13, Abrostola trigemina (Dark Spectacle); 14, Abrostola triplasia (Spectacle); 15, Lamprotes c-aureum; 16, Polychrysia moneta (Golden Plusia); 17, Euchalia consona; 18, Euchalcia modestoides; 19, Diachrysia chrysitis (Burnished Brass); 20, Autographa bractea (Gold Spangle); 21, Plusia festucae (Gold Spot); 22, Autographa jota (Plain Golden Y); 23, Autographa gamma (Silver Y); 24, Syngrapha interrogationis (Scarce Silver Y); 25, Syngrapha ain; 26, Syngrapha hochenwarthi. From Kirby 41.
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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’.
