Dark Noctuid Moth: Dorsal, ~17mm

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

Owlet moth (:Noctuoidea Noctuidae Acronictinae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Dark Noctuid Moth (Proteuxoa sp ES07)

This Photo:

Dorsal, ~17mm

Thank you Axel Kallies for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
We thought this might be P. restituta, but Axel said "P. restituta has a light grey collar".

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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