Dark Noctuid Moth
Ventral
Spotless Owlet Moth
Female, profile
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| Dark Noctuid Moth Ventral | | Spotless Owlet Moth Female, profile | | ||
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 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||||||||||||
| Order: | Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera) | |||||||||||||||
| Family: | Owlet moth (Noctuoidea:Noctuidae:Acronictinae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||||
| Species: | Spotless Owlet Moth (Thoracolopha acontoura)| This Photo: | Female, dorsal | Synonym: | Proteuxoa acontoura | Thank you Prof Victor W Fazio III† for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere 1st Live Photo on-line: ~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 crescents & spots, not obviously a proteuxoa.
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