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Lemur Hübner, Lemuris, Mania Treitschke
Adults. Head without a projecting, horny frontal plate. Eyes glabrous; not ciliated.
Wingspan about 36–40 mm. Forewings slightly olive grey-brown; pale fuscous, or fuscous, or olive brown; patterned transversely; the patterning well marked (with narrow inner and outer transverse tramlines, and two lines of dots near the outer margin); reniform defined; orbicular defined; claviform undefined. Hindwings grey; plain; 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. Posterior tibiae without spines. Abdomen not crested.
Living adults found in August.
Larvae, pupae. Larvae feeding on Ulex.
British representation. 1 species (adventive); Central-southern England (taken once, in the New Forest); ulicis* (The Berber).
Amphipyrinae.
Illustrations. • P. ulicis (The Berber), with other adventive Noctuidae: Swain. 1, Mesogana acetosellae (Pale Stigma); 2, Graphania dives; 3, Pseudenargia ulicis (The Berber); 4, Sedina buettneri (Blair's Wainscot). Swain, 1961.
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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’.
