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Adults. Eyes hairy. Antennae of males dentate, or bipectinate.
The thorax coloured like the forewings, the abdomen similar or somewhat lighter. Forewings ochreous; ochreous; complexly patterned; the patterning obscure (with indistinct streaks and subterminal line, and faintly outlined stigmata); reniform defined; orbicular defined; claviform defined (the stigmata clearly etched on the pale background). Hindwings whitish-fuscous to fuscous; terminally darkened; 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. Posterior tibiae without spines.
Living adults found in July.
British representation. 1 species (adventive); Northern England (once collected at Spurn Head); dives*.
Hadeninae.
Illustrations. • G. dives, with other adventive Noctuidae: Swain. 1, Mesogana acetosellae (Pale Stigma); 2, Graphania dives; 3, Pseudenargia ulicis (The Berber); 4, Sedina buettneri (Blair's Wainscot). Swain, 1961.
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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’.
