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Ophiodes Guenée
Adults. Head rough. Eyes glabrous; not ciliated. Antennae of males ciliate. Labial palps long; ascending.
Wingspan 50–60 mm. Head, thorax and abdomen concolorous with the forewings. Forewings pale dingy brown or ochreous grey, shaded darker; patterned transversely; the patterning well marked (with light-edged, dark first and second lines, and a wavy submarginal line with a row of dots outside it); patterned darker, or darker and lighter and darker; reniform defined; orbicular defined to undefined (reduced to a black dot); claviform undefined. Hindwings fuscous and brownish; conspicuously patterned (the pale brownish inner part contrasting with the broad, dark marginal band, which itself contains a darker line); without a clear discal mark; transversely lined; exhibiting vein 5. Vein 5 of the hindwings strong; arising nearer to vein 4 than to vein 6; convergent on vein 4 near their bases. Thorax slightly crested (as a central ridge). Middle tibiae with spines. Posterior tibiae with spines. Abdomen not crested.
Living adults found May and June.
Larvae, pupae. Larvae with red markings to without red markings (with a reddish orange lower-lateral stripe); feeding on Quercus and Populus.
British representation. 1 species; South-east England, Central-southern England, English Midlands, and Ireland; lunaris (Lunar Double Stripe).
Catocalinae.
Illustrations. • M. lunaris, with Catocala promissa, Callistege and Euclidia. 1(a)-(c), Catocala promissa (Light Crimson Underwing); 2(a) and (b), Minucia lunaris (Lunar Double Stripe); 3, Callistege mi (Mother Shipton); 4, Euclidia glyphica (Burnet Companion). From Newman, 1869. • Acontiinae, Amphipyrinae, Hadeninae and Heliothidinae: Kirby. ACONTIINAE. 13, Acontia lucida (Pale Shoulder); 17, Eublemma minutata (Scarce Marbled); 18, Deltote bankiana (Silver Barred); 19, Eustrotia uncula (Silver Hook); 20, Lithacodia deceptoria (Pretty Marbled); 21, Lithacodia pygarga (Marbled White Spot); 22, Emmelia trabealis (Spotted Sulphur). AMPHIPYRINAE. 5, Panemeria tenebrata (Small Yellow Underwing). HADENINAE. 3, Anarta myrtilli (Beautiful Yellow Underwing); 4, Anarta cordigera (Small Dark Yellow Underwing). HELIOTHIDINAE. 8. Heliothis viriplaca (Marbled Clover); 9, Protoschinia scutosa (Spotted Clover); 10, Heliothis peltigera (Bordered Straw); 11, Periphanes delphinii (Pease Blossom); 12, Pyrrhia umbra (Bordered Sallow) . CATOCALINAE. 28, Minucia lunaris (Lunar Double Stripe). Kirby. • Catocalinae: Kirby. CATOCALINAE. 23, Callistege mi (Mother Shipton); 24, Euclidia glyphica (Burnet Companion); 27, Dysgonia algira; 28, Minucia lunaris (Lunar Double Stripe). From Kirby,42. • Larva of Minucia lunaris: Duponchel and Guénée (1849). Noctuidae. Minucia lunaris (Lunar Double-stripe). Duponchel and Guénée, 1849.
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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’.
