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Adults. Head rough. Eyes glabrous; ciliated. Antennae of males ciliate, or dentate (?).
Wingspan 50–58 mm. Forewings pale ochreous with fuscous patterning; pale ochreous; complexly patterned; the patterning obscure; patterned darker; reniform defined; orbicular defined; claviform defined to undefined. Hindwings whitish-fuscous; plain (but with two darker spots); with a clear discal mark (in the form of one of the darker spots); without transverse lines; exhibiting vein 5. Vein 5 of the hindwings weak; arising nearer to vein 6 than to vein 4. Thorax crested (front and back). Posterior tibiae without spines. Abdomen crested (with several crests).
Living adults found August and September.
Larvae, pupae. Larvae feeding on Prunus, Ulmus.
British representation. 1 species (adventive); Central-southern England (very rare); bimaculosa* (Double-spot Brocade).
Cuculliinae.
Illustrations. • Cuculliinae: Meganephria bimaculosa (Double-spot Brocade: B. Ent. 177). • Meganephria bimaculosa: B. Ent. 177, legend+text. • Meganephria bimaculosa: B. Ent. 177, text cont.. • M. bimaculosa (Double0spot Brocade), with Calophasia and Lithophane: Newman. 1, Lithophane semibrunnea (Tawny Pinion); 2, Lithophane hepatica (Pale Pinion); 3, Lithophane ornitopus (Grey Shoulder-knot); 4, Lithophane furcifera (The Conformist); 5(a) and (b), Lithophane lambda (The Nonconformist); 6, Meganephria bimaculosa (Double-spot Brocade); 7, Calophasia lunula (Toadflax Brocade); 8, Calophasia platyptera (Antirrhinum Brocade). From Newman, 1869. • M. bimaculosa, with Cuculliinae, Amphipyrinae and Noctuinae: Kirby. CUCULLIINAE. 1, Dryobotodes eremita (Brindled Green); 2, Dichonia aprilina (Merveille-du-Jour); 3, Lamprosticta culta; 4, Meganephria bimaculosa (Double-spot Brocade); 5, Allophyes oxyacanthae (Green-brindled Crescent); 6, Valeria oleagina (Green Brindled Dot); 10, Blepharita satura (Beautiful Arches); 11, Eremobia ochroleuca (Dusky Sallow); 22, Hyppa rectilinea (Clouded Brocade); 23, Auchmis detersa. AMPHIPYRINAE. 7, Luperina testacea (Flounced Rustic); 8, Thalophila matura (Straw Underwing); 9, Calamia tridens virens (Burren Green); 12, Apamea lateritia (Scarce Brindle); 13, Apamea monoglypha (Dark Arches); 14, Apamea lithoxylaea (Light Arches); 15, Apamea sordens (Rustic Shoulder-knot); 16, Apamea crenata (Clouded-bordered Brindle); 17, Apamea remissa (Dusky Brocade); 18, Mesapamea secalis (Common Rustic); 19, Oligia strigilis (Marbled Minor); 20, Mesoligia furuncula (Cloaked Minor); 21, Dypterygia scabriuscula (Bird's Wing); 25, Callopistria juventina; 26, Polyphaenis sericata. NOCTUINAE. 24, Actinotia polyodon (Purple Cloud). From Kirby 40, with names updated.
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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’.
