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Lemur Hübner, Lemuris, Mania Treitschke
Adults. Head rough. Face without any conspicuous prominence. Eyes glabrous; not ciliated. Antennae of males ciliate. Labial palps medium; porrect to ascending.
Wingspan 60–70 mm. Head, thorax and abdomen blackish brown. Forewings blackish brown, shaded grey-brown; fuscous, or blackish; complexly patterned; the patterning well marked (with a dark median band, light-and-dark chequering of the costa, and a paler marginal border); patterned lighter and darker; reniform defined; orbicular defined; claviform undefined. Hindwings dark fuscous, or blackish; conspicuously patterned (contrasingly dark- and light-banded); without a clear discal mark; exhibiting vein 5. Vein 5 of the hindwings weak; arising nearer to vein 6 than to vein 4. Thorax crested (in the middle, as well as anteriorly and posteriorly). Middle tibiae without spines. Posterior tibiae without spines. Abdomen crested.
Living adults found July and August.
Larvae, pupae. Larvae posteriorly rounded; feeding on diverse herbaceous Dicots in the Autumn, then young shoots of Crataegus, Betula, Salix, etc., after hibernation; pupating in the soil.
British representation. 1 species; South-east England, Central-southern England, South-west England, English Midlands, Northern England, Southern Scotland, Northern Scotland, Wales, and Ireland (common); maura (Old Lady).
Amphipyrinae.
Illustrations. • M. maura (The Old Lady): photo. • M. maura (The Old Lady), and 8 related genera: Newman. 1(a) and (b), Mormo maura (The Old Lady); 2, Amphipyra pyramidea (Copper Underwing); 3, Amphipyra tragopoginis (The Mouse); 4, Dypterygia scabriuscula (The Bird's Wing); 5, Thalpophila matura (Straw Underwing); 6(a) and (b), Rusina ferruginea (Brown Rustic); 7, Trachea aptriplicis (The Orache Moth); 8, Euplexia lucipara (Small Angle-shades); 9, Phlogophora meticulosa (The Angle Shades); 10, Ipimorpha subtusa (The Olive); 11, Ipimorpha retusa (The Small Olive). 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 (Bulllrush 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. • Larvae and pupa of M. maura (Old Lady): Duponchel and Guénée (1849). Noctuidae. Mormo maura (Old Lady). 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’.
