Butterflies & Moths of the United Kingdom: With a Specific Arrangement of Families and Genera, Indexes of Scientific and Popular Names ... |
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abdomen anal angle anal plates antennĉ apex appears in June band base black dots black spots blackish British Isles broad brownish grey caterpillar is green central dot central shade chrysalis ciliated cocoon colour common throughout costa cream-coloured curved dark brown dark grey darker dentated discoidal dorsal line edged with black Expanse of wings eyes are glabrous feeds female fore-wings are pale fringes Genus greyish brown hairs hairy head hind margins hind-wings hinder angle Hübner indistinct inner margin inner side Ireland June and July Larentia Linnĉus low plants males markings middle Moth nervures oblique ocelli ochre-yellow ochreous brown orange pale grey pale ochreous pale yellow paler palpi proboscis reddish brown reniform stigma rounded row of black rusty brown short sixteen legs slender slightly species spiracles stigmata stout streaks stripe submarginal line terminal joint thorax throughout the British tibiĉ transverse lines tubercles tuft whitish wings 1-1 inch zigzag