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Cerigo Stephens, Thalophila
Adults. Head rough. Head without a frontal tuft. Eyes glabrous; not ciliated. Antennae of males ciliate.
Wingspan 38–46 mm. Thorax coloured like the forewings, the abdomen like the hindwings. Forewings fuscous and rosy-tinted; purplish marked or tinged to rosy marked or tinged; complexly patterned; the patterning well marked (with four light lines, and dark streaking); reniform defined; orbicular defined; claviform defined. Hindwings fuscous and yellowish, or fuscous and yellow; conspicuously patterned (the dark marginal band containing light marks at the inner angle, contrasting strongly with the straw-coloured inner part); 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. Middle tibiae without spines. Posterior tibiae without spines; rough-scaled. Abdomen not crested.
Living adults found July and August.
Larvae, pupae. Larvae feeding on grasses, in dry and elevated places; pupating in the soil.
British representation. 1 species; South-east England, Central-southern England, South-west England, English Midlands, Northern England, Southern Scotland, Northern Scotland, Wales, and Ireland; matura (Straw Underwing).
Amphipyrinae.
Illustrations. • T. matura (Straw Underwing), and 8 related genera: Newman. 1(a) and (b), Mormo maura (The Old Lady); 2, Amphipyra pyramidea (Copper Underwing); 3, Amphipyra tragopoginis (The Mouse); 4, Dypterygia scabriuscula (The Bird's Wing); 5, THALPOPHILA matura (Straw Underwing); 6(a) and (b), Rusina ferruginea (Brown Rustic); 7, Trachea aptriplicis (The Orache Moth); 8, Euplexia lucipara (Small Angle-shades); 9, Phlogophora meticulosa (The Angle Shades); 10, Ipimorpha subtusa (The Olive); 11, Ipimorpha retusa (The Small Olive). From Newman, 1869.
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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’.
