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Ilarus Boisduval
Adults. Head rough (-haired). Eyes hairy; not ciliated. Antennae of males ciliate and dentate.
Wingspan 32–40 mm. Forewings light orangish-brown; complexly patterned; the patterning well marked; reniform defined (light); orbicular defined (light, joined to the reniform by a narrow bar); claviform undefined. Hindwings dark grey and pinkish (rosy tinged); plain to 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. Thorax not crested. Posterior tibiae without spines (?). Abdomen crested (slightly, basally).
Living adults found in April.
Larvae, pupae. Larvae feeding on needles of Pinus sylvestris; pupating in or under bark or rotten wood (in bark crevices).
British representation. 1 species; South-east England, Central-southern England, South-west England, English Midlands, Northern England, Southern Scotland, Northern Scotland, Wales, and Ireland; flammea (Pine Beauty).
Hadeninae.
Illustrations. • Hadeninae: Panolis flammea (Pine-destroying Noctua, Pine Beauty. B. Ent. 117). • Panolis flammea: B. Ent. 117, legend+text. • Panolis flammea: B. Ent. 117, text cont.. • P. flammea (Pine Beauty), with Hadena and Egira: Newman. 1(a)-(e), Hadena perplexa (Tawny Shears, various forms); 2, Hadena perplexa capsophila (The Pod lover); 3, Hadena caesia mananii (The Grey); 4, Hadena rivularis (The Campion); 5(a) and (b), Hadena confusa (Marbled Coronet); 6(a), Hadena bicruris (The Lychnis, typical form); 6(b), Hadena bicruris (unusual variety); 7(a) and (b), Hadena luteago barrettii (Barrett's Marbled Coronet); 8, Hadena albimacula (The White Spot); 9(a)-(c), Egira (The Silver Cloud); 10, Panolis flammea (Pine Beauty). From Newman, 1869. • Hadeninae: Kirby. HADENINAE. 1, Orthosia gothica (Hebrew Character); 2, Orthosia miniosa Blossom Underwing); 3, Orthosia cruda (Small Quaker); 4, Orthosia cerasi (Common Quaker); 5, Orthosia gracilis (Powdered Quaker); 6, Orthosia incerta (Clouded Drab); 7, Orthosia munda (Twin-spot Quaker); 8, Panolis flammea (Pine Beauty); 12, Mythimna pallens (Common Wainscot); 13, Mythimna comma (Shoulder-striped Wainscot); 14, Mythimna conigera (Brown-line Bright Eye); 15, Mythimna L-album; 16, Egira spicillaris (Silver Cloud). From Kirby 36–38.
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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’.
