ws |
fw |
flight |
time |
11-14 |
6.0-7.2 (8) |
Jul-Aug |
night & to light |
lfp |
habitat |
distribution |
status |
mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris), wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), yarrow (Achillea millefolium), tansy (Tanacetum vulgare), ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) |
downland, scrub |
E, W, (S) |
common |
Male genitalia
V V-shaped with saccus slightly produced and posterodorsal ends free. T relatively weak, arced. Uncus standard ovoid. (Anal tube emerges between T and uncus and so extends dorsal to uncus). Sacculus rectangular; AVM fairly straight; ALA produced into a bluntly rounded projection; LM sinuate; PLA with a curved process directed posteriorly in the set position and with a small tooth at its base. Valvula arises immediately medial to PLprocess, elongate, somewhat clubbed. Costa extended medially as a curved transtilla that does not meet in the midline. Juxta long, extending anteriorly to a spur from the base of the tunica. Tunica long, 2-pronged, right prong with a dorsal subapical tooth, left prong narrower with an apical tooth. Vesica with a sclerotised annulus, longe sclerotised arc and small comb of cornuti near ductus ejaculatorius. Male genital key: Sacculus with a blunt, rounded, anterior projection and a longer, curved, posterior process; aedeagus 2-pronged, one of which has a dorsal subapical tooth.
Posterior process curved laterally and with a small tooth at its base |
Female genitalia
AP elongate hairy pads, somewhat dorsoventrally compressed. PA from lateral margins of AP to just anterior to anterior margin of A8 with ovipositor extended ~2xOP. Moderate extension at A8/9 ISM. A8 dorsal plate ~quadrate, lateral margins weakly sclerotised. AA from anterolateral angles of OP ~1xOP. OP anterior margin shallowly concave, noticeably broader than posterior margin; PM rounded either side of a shallow median notch in which the ostium is sited. Antrum sclerotised, fairly long - from ostium to level with ~anterior end of AA. DB with a short ~hyaline section at junction with antrum, then a short spiculate section, then an extremely long largely hyaline loosely coiled section to junction with CB. The spiculate section is ~1OP in length, it has a dense bilinear component which is topologically dorsal, but as the junction between antrum and DB has a rotation it is on the right in the natural position; the topologically ventral surface has more sparse spiculation. The loosely coiled part of the DB has a section within the anterior ⅓ with light smudgy sclerotisation; the ductus seminilis enters in this section. Junction with CB ditinct. CB ~spherical; signum a thorn with a broad ~quadrate base plate and a short spike. Female genital key: Antrum strongly sclerotised and long; ostium at posterior margin of ostial plate; spiculate section of ductus bursae shorter than antrum.
Ductus bursae extremely long and narrow |