Spotless Proteuxoa
Female, profile
Spotless Proteuxoa
Male, dorsal
| Spotless Proteuxoa Female, profile | | Spotless Proteuxoa Male, dorsal | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Owlet moth (:Noctuoidea Noctuidae Acronictinae) | ||||
| Species: | Spotless Proteuxoa (Proteuxoa acontoura) | ||||
| This Photo: | Female, ventral | ||||
| Synonym: | Thoracolopha acontoura | ||||
General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere About 11mm long & 30mm wingspan. Based on body shape, we assume females have an ochre tint to the posterior end of their abdomen. What we assume to be males are off-white. There didn't appear to be any other variations we could see. They have a faint racing stripe behind their head, which is not visible on pinned samples as the pin-head interferes. We weren't able to capture their satin texture in photographs. An elegant moth to the naked eye. And due to the lack of cresents & spots, not obviously a proteuxoa. While Thoracolopha acontoura is the currently accepted name (as of late 2017), we use the names on the ALA which hasn't caught up yet and still lists this under Proteuxoa. | |||||
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