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Adults. Head rough. Face without any conspicuous prominence. Eyes glabrous; ciliated. Antennae of males ciliate.
Wingspan 44–52 mm. Thorax coloured like the forewings, the abdomen like the hindwings. Forewings dark brown or fuscous, and glossy-rosy-tinged basally and medianly; purplish marked or tinged to rosy marked or tinged; complexly patterned; the patterning well marked; neither shining-metallic nor with shining metallic effects; reniform defined (large, oblique and light, with a wedge-shaped dash from its inner, lower margin); orbicular defined (relatively inconspicuous); claviform defined, or undefined. Hindwings fuscous; terminally darkened; with 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. Thorax crested (prominently anteriorly). Posterior tibiae without spines. Abdomen crested.
Living adults found September and October.
Larvae, pupae. Larvae feeding on various low-growing plants when young, later the foliage of Fraxinus and Ligustrum; pupating on the surface of the ground, or in the soil (?).
British representation. 1 species; South-east England (local); flammea (Flame Brocade).
Cuculliinae.
Illustrations. • Trigonophora flammea (Flame Brocade), and 9 related genera: Newman. 1(a) and (b), Cleoceris viminalis (Minor Shoulder-knot); 2, Leucochlaena oditis (Beautiful Gothic); 3(a)-(c), Dryobotodes eremita (Brindled Green); 4(a)-(c), Dasypolia templi (Brindled Ochre); 5, Lithomoia solidaginis (Golden-rod Brindle); 6, Valeria oleagina (Green-brindled Dot); 7(a) and (b), Aporophyla australis pascuea (Feathered Brindle); 8(a) and (b), Aporophyla lutulenta lutulenta (Deep-brown Dart); 9(a) and (b), Aporophyla nigra (Black Rustic); 10(a) and (b), Allophyes oxyacanthae (Green-brindled Crescent); 11, Trigonophora flammea (Flame Brocade); 12(a) and (b), Dichonia aprilina (Merveille-du-jour). 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’.
