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Adults. Head rough. Eyes glabrous; not ciliated. Antennae of males ciliate.
Wingspan 30–35 mm. Head and thorax dark brown, abdomen greyer. Forewings rich umber brown with rosy pattern; rosy marked or tinged; complexly patterned; the patterning well marked (the rosy submarginal band contrasting with the dark base and margin); reniform defined (large, conspicuous, pale); orbicular defined (indistinct); claviform undefined. Hindwings fuscous, or fuscous and pinkish; terminally darkened; with a clear discal mark; transversely lined; exhibiting vein 5. Vein 5 of the hindwings weak; arising nearer to vein 6 than to vein 4. Thorax crested (front and rear). Middle tibiae without spines. Posterior tibiae without spines. Abdomen crested.
Living adults found June and July.
Larvae, pupae. Larvae posteriorly humped; feeding on foliage of Salix and Betula, also fern fronds; 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 (common); lucipara (Small Angle Shades).
Amphipyrinae.
Illustrations. • Euplexia lucipara (Small Angle-shades): B. Ent. 619. • Euplexia lucipara: B. Ent. 619, legend+text. • Euplexia lucipara: B. Ent. 619, text cont.. • E. lucipara, and related genera: Newman. 1(a) and (b), Mormo maura (The Old Lady); 2, Amphipyra pyramidea (Copper Underwing); 3, Amphipyra tragopoginis (The Mouse); 4, Dypterygia scabriuscula (The Bird's Wing); 5, Thalpophila matura (Straw Underwing); 6(a) and (b), Rusina ferruginea (Brown Rustic); 7, Trachea aptriplicis (The Orache Moth); 8, EUPLEXIA lucipara (Small Angle-shades); 9, Phlogophora meticulosa (The Angle Shades); 10, Ipimorpha subtusa (The Olive); 11, Ipimorpha retusa (The Small Olive). From Newman, 1869. • Amphipyrinae: Kirby. AMPHIPYRINAE. 1, Trachea atriplicis (Orache Moth); 2, Euplexia lucipara (Small Angle-shades); 4, Phlogophora meticulosa (Angle-shades); 5, Mormo maura (Old Lady); 8, Amphipoea oculea (Golden Ear); 9, Gortyna flavago (Frosted Orange); 10, Archanara cannae (Reed Wainscot); 11, Nonagria typhae (Bulrush Moth); 12, Diclya 00 (Heart); 13, Cosmia pyralina (Lunar-spotted Pinion); 14, Cosmia diffinis (White-spotted Pinion); 15, Cosmia affinis (Lesser-spotted Pinion); 16, Cosmia trapezina (Dun Bar); 17, Ipimorpha retusa (Double Kidney); 21, Amphipyra tragopogonis (Mouse); 22, Amphipyra pyramidea Copper Underwing).
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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’.
