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Ammogrotis Staudinger; = Coenophila Stephens
Adults. Head rough. Face without any conspicuous prominence. Eyes glabrous; not ciliated. Antennae of males bipectinate (with simple apex).
Wingspan 38–42 mm. Head and thorax coloured like the forewings, the abdomen like the hindwings. Forewings rosy fuscous, glossy; rosy marked or tinged; patterned transversely, or complexly patterned; the patterning well marked; reniform defined; orbicular defined (with dark marks proximally and between it and the reniform); claviform undefined. Hindwings whitish-fuscous, or yellowish; with a clear discal mark; without transverse lines; exhibiting vein 5. Vein 5 of the hindwings strong (distally); arising nearer to vein 6 than to vein 4. Thorax crested (front and rear). Middle tibiae with spines. Posterior tibiae with spines. Abdomen not crested.
Living adults found July and August.
Larvae, pupae. Larvae feeding on Myrica, Salix.
British representation. 1 species (supposedly exclusively British, now extinct through drainage of fens); English Midlands; subrosea (Rosy Marsh Moth).
Noctuinae.
Illustrations. • Noctuinae: E. subrosea (Rosy Marsh Moth) and related genera: Newman. 1, Actinotia polyodon (The Purple Cloud); 2, Axylia putris (The Flame); 3, Rhyacia simulans (Dotted Rustic); 4, Eugnorisma glareosa (Autumnal Rustic); 5, Paradiarsia (Protolampra) sobrina (Cousin German); 6, Lycophotia porphyrea (True Lovers' Knot); 7, Ochropleura praecox (Portland Moth); 8, Ochropleura fennica (Eversmann’s Rustic); 9, Eugnorisma depuncta (Plain Clay); 10(a) and (b), Standfussiana lucernea (Northern Rustic); 11, Ochropleura flammatra (The Black Collar); 12, Ochropleura plecta (Flame Shoulder); 13, EUGRAPHE subrosea (Rosy Marsh Moth); 14, Spaelotis ravida (Stout Dart); 15, Graphiphora augur (Double Dart). From Newman (1869). • Eugraphe subrosea (Rosy Marsh Moth): Stephens II, 1830.
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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’.
