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Ochria Hübner
Adults. Head with a projecting, triangular horny frontal plate (concealed in dense scales). Eyes glabrous; not ciliated. Antennae of males ciliate.
Wingspan 32–42 mm. Thorax ochreous-orange-yellow and purplish brown, the abdomen paler and coloured like the hindwings. Forewings orange-ochreous-yellow; complexly patterned; the patterning well marked (colour limits sharply defined, with purplish-brown bands, streaks and stigmatal outlines); reniform defined; orbicular defined; claviform defined (D-shaped). Hindwings white to whitish, or fuscous, or ochreous; plain to terminally darkened (with an indistinct sub-marginal band); with a clear discal mark to without a clear discal mark; indistinctly transversely lined; exhibiting vein 5. Vein 5 of the hindwings weak; arising nearer to vein 6 than to vein 4. Thorax crested (anteriorly and posteriorly). Middle tibiae without spines. Posterior tibiae without spines; rough-scaled.
Living adults found August and September.
Larvae, pupae. Larvae posteriorly rounded; feeding on Arctium, Cirsium, Eupatorium, Verbascum, Digitalis, Sambucus, etc., within the stems; pupating within the stems of the foodplant (generally near the ground).
British representation. 2 species; South-east England, Central-southern England, South-west England, English Midlands, Northern England, Southern Scotland, Northern Scotland, Wales, and Ireland (local); flavago (Frosted Orange), borelii lunata (Fisher’s Estuarine Moth.
Amphipyrinae.
Illustrations. • G. flavago (The Frosted Orange), and related genera: Newman. 1(a) and (b), Photedes captiuncula (Least Minor); 2(a)-(c), Photedes pygmina (Small Wainscot); 3(a) and (b), Photedes minima (Small Dotted Buff); 4, Photedes elymi (The Lyme Grass); 5, Photedes morrisii (Bond's Wainscot); 6, Photedes brevilinea (Fenn's Wainscot); 7(a) and (b), Photedes extrema (The Concolorous); 8(a) and (b), Photedes fluxa (Mere Wainscot); 9(a) and (b), Amphipoea spp. (The Ear - requiring examination of genitalia to distinguish the species); 10, Luperina testacea (Flounced Rustic); 11, Luperina dumerilii (Dumeril's Luperina); 12, Hydraecia micacea (Rosy Rustic); 13, Hydraecia petasitis (The Butterbur); 14, GORTINA flavago (Frosted Orange); 15(a) and (b), Celaena leucostigma leucostigma (The Crescent) 16, Celaena haworthii (Haworth's Minor); 17(a) and (b), Nonagria typhae (The Bullrush). 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). From Kirby 36 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’.
