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Adults. Head rough. Head without a projecting, horny frontal plate. Eyes glabrous; not ciliated. Antennae of males ciliate.
Wingspan 40–52 mm. Head and thorax coloured like the forewings, the abdomen pearly-grey. Forewings cream or light fuscous-buff; whitish, or ochreous, or cream, or pale fuscous; patterned transversely, or patterned transversely and longitudinally streaked; the patterning well marked to obscure (fairly inconspicuously streaked ochreous and paler longitidinally, with an outer transverse line of dark dots); reniform undefined; orbicular undefined; claviform undefined. Hindwings whitish, or fuscous to ochreous; plain to terminally darkened; without a clear discal mark; transversely lined (in the form of one row of dots), or without transverse lines; exhibiting vein 5. Vein 5 of the hindwings weak; arising nearer to vein 6 than to vein 4. Middle tibiae without spines. Posterior tibiae without spines; rough-scaled. Abdomen not crested.
Living adults found late July, or August to October.
Larvae, pupae. Larvae feeding on Phragmites roots; pupating within the stems of the foodplant (after gnawing upwards from the roots).
British representation. 1 species; South-east England, Central-southern England, South-west England, English Midlands, Northern England, Southern Scotland, Northern Scotland, Wales, and Ireland; lutosa (Large Wainscot).
Amphipyrinae.
Illustrations. • R. lutosa (Large Wainscot), with related genera: Newman. 1, Panemeria tenebrata (Small Yellow Underwing); 2, Elaphria venustula (The Rosy Marbled); 3, Archanara geminipuncta (Twin-spotted Wainscot); 4(a) and (b), Archanara dissoluta (Brown-veined Wainscot); 5, Archanara algae ( Reed Wainscot); 6, Oria musculosa (Brighton Wainscot); 7, RHIZEDRA lutosa (Large Wainscot); 8(a)-(d), Charanyca trigrammica (Treble Lines); 9, Arenostola phragmitidis (Fen Wainscot); 10, Hoplodrina alsines (The Uncertain); 11, Hoplodrina blanda (The Rustic); 12, Caradrina morpheus (Mottled Rustic); 13, Caradrina clavipalpis (Pale Mottled Willow); 14(a)-(d), Chilodes peltigera (Silky Wainscot); 15, Stilbia anomala (The Anomalous); 16, Spodoptera exigua (Small Mottled Willow); 17, Acosmetia caliginosa (The Reddish Buff); 18, Coenobia rufa (Small Rufous); 19, Athetis pallustris (Marsh Moth). From Newman, 1869. • Rhizedra lutosa (Nonagria vectis, Isle of Wight Wainscot: B. Ent. 459). • Rhizedra lutosa (Nonagria vectis): B. Ent. 459, legend+text. • Rhizedra lutosa (Nonagria vectis): B. Ent. 459, text cont..
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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’.
