| | Insects of Britain and Ireland: the genera of Lepidoptera-Noctuidae |
Tholomiges Lederer
Adults. Head without a frontal tuft. Eyes glabrous (?). Antennae of males ciliate. Labial palps long; ascending.
Wingspan 14–15 mm. Forewings dingy fuscous; patterned transversely (with dark lines and bars); the patterning well marked. Hindwings grey; plain; with a clear discal mark; without transverse lines; exhibiting vein 5. Vein 5 of the hindwings strong; arising nearer to vein 4 than to vein 6; parallel with vein 4. Thorax not crested. Posterior tibiae with spines; with appressed scales. Abdomen not crested.
Living adults found in July.
British representation. 1 species; South-east England, Central-southern England, South-west England, English Midlands, Northern England, Southern Scotland, Northern Scotland, and Wales (local); humidalis (The Marsh Oblique-barred).
Strepsimaninae.
Comments. No information on the early stages.
Illustrations. • H. humidalis (Marsh Oblique-barred), with Herminiinae, Hypeninae and Rivulinae: Leech, 1886. NOCTUIDAE-RIVULINAE. 1. Colobochyla salicalis (Lesser Belle). 9, Rivula sericealis(Straw Dot). HYPENINAE. 2, Hypena proboscidalis (Snout); 3, Hypena rostralis (Buttoned Snout); 4, Hypena crassalis (Beautiful Snout. 4, Schrankia taenialis (White-line Snout); 6, Schrankia costaestrigalis (Pinion-streaked Snout). 7, Hypenodes humidalis (Marsh Oblique-barred). HERMINIINAE. 8, Trisateles emortualis (Olive Crescent). 10, Paracolax tristalis (Clay Fan-foot). 11, Pechipogo strigulata (Common Fan-foot). 12, Zanclognatha tarsipennalis (The Fan-foot). Leech, 1886. • British Hypeninae (2: Snouts). 1(a) and (b), Hypena crassalis (Beautiful Snout); 2, Hypena proboscidalis (The Snout); 3, Hypena obsetalis (Bloxworth Snout); 4, Hypena obesalis (Paignton Snout); 5(a) and (b), Hypena rostralis (Buttoned Snout); 6(a) and (b), Schrankia taenialis (White-line Snout); 7, HYPENODES humidalis (Marsh Oblique-barred); 8(a) and (b), Schrankia costaestrigalis (Pinion-streaked Snout). Swain, 1961.
We advise against extracting comparative information from the descriptions. This is much more easily achieved using the DELTA data files or the interactive key, which allows access to the character list, illustrations, full and partial descriptions, diagnostic descriptions, differences and similarities between taxa, lists of taxa exhibiting or lacking specified attributes, and distributions of character states within any set of taxa. See also Guidelines for using data taken from Web publications.
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’.
