A Noctuid moth at Ainslie, ACT
Identification history
| Proteuxoa porphyrescens | 12 Mar 2020 | donhe | ||
| Proteuxoa porphyrescens | 12 Mar 2020 | GlennCocking | ||
| Proteuxoa hypochalchis | 5 Mar 2020 | donhe | ||
| Oecophoridae (family) | 5 Mar 2020 | donhe | ||
| Eulechria undescribed species | 4 Mar 2020 | jb2602 | ||
| Garrha (genus) | 4 Mar 2020 | jb2602 |
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6 comments
ibaird
wrote:
5 Mar 2020
Lacks banded antennae so is not a Garrha sp. There is a similar looking moth which has been placed in Eulechria sp.(genus) provisionally.
donhe
wrote:
5 Mar 2020
I think there are similar moths in all of Ian Common's Oecophorinae groups: grey-brown with variable sparse patterns of dark spots including submarginal arcs of dark spots.
GlennCocking
wrote:
5 Mar 2020
I think this is a Proteuxoa - it has thick upward pointing labial palpi without the fine tip curved back over the head.
donhe
wrote:
6 Mar 2020
Some of the BOLD specimens of P. hypochalcis look a bit like this moth, eg BIOUG02187-C12
GlennCocking
wrote:
13 Mar 2020
Proteuxoa is a difficult genus with many species. I think the common species that matches this image best is P. porphyrescens.
ibaird
wrote:
13 Mar 2020
This does seems to match well enough many of the examples of P. porphryrescens shown on Bold Systems 4 , but it seems to lack the fine white line along the hindwing and forewing extremity which a minority there show,
Location information
- Coordinates 149.152032-35.259245
- Places Ainslie, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 23 Feb 2020 10:07 PM Recorded on
- jb2602 Recorded by
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Insects Moths (Lepidoptera) Noctuoid moths (except Arctiinae) jb2602 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Proteuxoa porphyrescens Scientific name
- A Noctuid moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 625.13m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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