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Adults. Face without any conspicuous prominence. Eyes glabrous; not ciliated.
Thorax coloured like the forewings, the abdomen like the hindwings. Forewings dark grey-brown; fuscous; neither green nor greenish tinged; neither purplish nor rosy marked or tinged; complexly patterned; the patterning well marked to obscure; reniform defined; orbicular defined; claviform undefined. Hindwings pale fuscous; plain to terminally darkened; with a clear discal mark to without a clear discal mark; without transverse lines; exhibiting vein 5. Vein 5 of the hindwings strong (distally); arising nearer to vein 6 than to vein 4. Middle tibiae with spines. Posterior tibiae with spines. Abdomen not crested.
Living adults found July and August.
Larvae, pupae. Larvae feeding on diverse Dicot weeds - Taraxacum, Rumex, Stellaria, etc.; pupating in the soil (amongst the roots of the foodplant).
British representation. 1 species; South-east England, Central-southern England, South-west England, English Midlands, Northern England, Southern Scotland, Northern Scotland, and Wales (of irregular occurrence); ravida (Stout Dart).
Noctuinae.
Illustrations. • Noctuinae: S. ravida (Stout Dart), with 10 related genera. 1, Actinotia polyodon (The Purple Cloud); 2, Axylia putris (The Flame); 3, Rhyacia simulans (Dotted Rustic); 4, Eugnorisma glareosa (Autumnal Rustic); 5, Paradiarsia (Protolampra) sobrina (Cousin German); 6, Lycophotia porphyrea (True Lovers' Knot); 7, Ochropleura praecox (Portland Moth); 8, Ochropleura fennica (Eversmann’s Rustic); 9, Eugnorisma depuncta (Plain Clay); 10(a) and (b), Standfussiana lucernea (Northern Rustic); 11, Ochropleura flammatra (The Black Collar); 12, Ochropleura plecta (Flame Shoulder); 13, Eugraphe subrosea (Rosy Marsh Moth); 14, SPAELOTIS ravida (Stout Dart); 15, Graphiphora augur (Double Dart). From Newman (1869). • Noctuinae: Kirby. NOCTUINAE. : 8 and 20, Xestia ditrapezium (Triple-spotted Clay); 9, Noctua janthe (Lesser Broad-border); 10, "Hiria linogrisea", cf. Epiplecta; 11, Noctua fimbria (Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing); 12, Graphiophora augur (Double Dart); 13, Spaelotis ravida (Stout Dart); 14, Noctua pronuba (Yellow Underwing); 15, Noctua orbona (Lunar Yellow Underwing); 16, Noctua comes (Lesser Yellow Underwing); 17, Xestia triangulum (Double Square Spot); 18, Xestia baja (Dotted Clay ); 19, Xestia c-nigrum (Setaceous Hebrew Character); 20, Xestia ditrapezium (Triple-spotted Clay); 21, Diarsia brunnea (Purple Clay); 22, Diarsia mendica (Ingrailed Clay); 23, Paradiarsia glareosa (Autumnal Rustic); 24, Chersotis multangula; 25, Chersotis cuprea; 26, Chersotis ocellina; 27, Ochropleura plectra (Flame Shoulder). From Kirby 34, with names updated.
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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’.
