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Unless indicated otherwise, the following attributes are implicit throughout the descriptions, except where the characters concerned are inapplicable.
Adults. Thorax neither white nor white-striped.
The forewing patterning not restricted to dark discal or costal and discal spots; without a predominant anterior-median triangle of dark spots. The discal mark not whitish-edged. Forewings without a tornal spot. Forewing fringes not chequered.
The termen of the hindwings smooth; convexly rounded; apex smoothly rounded into the costa; hindwings without a pale tornal spot.
The abdomen not reddish towards the base; plain.
Neuration. Forewing and hindwing neuration layout not conspicuously darkened. Vein 10 of the forewings arising out of 11 and anastomosing with 9 to form a simple areole.
Genitalia. The male abdomen with a sclerotized plate under the eighth segment. The bursa copulatrix conspicuously ornamented; not ornamented exclusively by one or two narrow, curved transverse rows of tiny spines.
Melanism. Melanic imagines unlikely to be encountered.
Special key characters. Forewings without a conspicuous broad median fascia from costa to dorsum; without a conspicuous oblique pale fascia; without a postmedian line bearing arrow-like markings; not dominated by double ante- and postmedian lines. Hindwings not predominantly green, yellow, or black.
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Cite this publication as: ‘Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2003 onwards. Insects of Britain and Ireland: the pug moths (Lepidoptera-Geometridae). Version: 27th July 2019. delta-intkey.com’.