Brachmia |
Generic features: Head thickly clothed with scales covering frons; Antenna 4/5 length of fw; Labial palp long, curved, ascending; S2 thickened with appressed scales; S2 <= S3; Forewing termen sinuate; V2&3 stalked; V7&8 stalked, V7 to apex; Hindwing = breadth to forewing; trapezoidal, termen sinuate; cilia as long as breadth of wing; V3&4 connate or stalked, V6&7 stalked
Male genitalia: Uncus pointed
Male genitalia: Uncus pointed
The two British Brachmia species are readily separable by the presence of dark fasciae in B.blandella and their absence in B.inornatella
