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Adults. Eyes glabrous; not ciliated.
Wingspan about 28–34 mm. Forewings light fuscous or buff with darker veins; longitudinally streaked; the patterning well marked to obscure (streaked darker from the base); reniform undefined; orbicular undefined; claviform undefined. Hindwings whitish-fuscous and fuscous, or whitish-fuscous and 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 August to October.
Larvae, pupae. Larvae feeding on Cyperaceae, boring into the shoots from the apex; pupating within the stems of the foodplant.
British representation. 1 species; Central-southern England (Isle of Wight only); buettneri (Blair’s Wainscot).
Amphipyrinae.
Illustrations. • S. buettneri (Blair's Wainscot), with some adventive Noctuidae. 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’.
