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Identification history
| Unidentified | 7 Mar 2019 | donhe | ||
| Proteuxoa nycteris | 7 Mar 2019 | ibaird | ||
| Neumichtis nigerrima | 2 Mar 2019 | jackQ | ||
| Neumichtis nigerrima | 2 Mar 2019 | donhe | ||
| Unidentified | 2 Mar 2019 | jackQ |
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5 comments
jackQ
wrote:
3 Mar 2019
Thanks Don I went back and took a few more photos to assist with the ID - sorry the lighting is not the best
ibaird
wrote:
7 Mar 2019
In doing a search on the ALA under Proteuxoa I found Thoracolopha nycteris, which looks a good match for this specimen, see
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:a1c0341b-a704-4efa-ab23-3280f5728342#gallery. Donald Hobern recorded Thoracolopha nycteris at Aranda in 2015.
And also at: https://bie.ala.org.au/search?q=Proteuxoa+nycteris
The genus Thoracolopha is recognised by the AFD as a synonym for Proteuxoa. On the ALA there are two records of P. nycteris from the Snowy River area.
https://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:a1c0341b-a704-4efa-ab23-3280f5728342#gallery. Donald Hobern recorded Thoracolopha nycteris at Aranda in 2015.
And also at: https://bie.ala.org.au/search?q=Proteuxoa+nycteris
The genus Thoracolopha is recognised by the AFD as a synonym for Proteuxoa. On the ALA there are two records of P. nycteris from the Snowy River area.
jackQ
wrote:
8 Mar 2019
Thanks Glenn and Ian for persistence with an ID. These Donald Hobern Proteuxoa photos are the closest match to what I saw. The first only labelled at genus level
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5108243
The second is Proteuxoa Nycteris
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proteuxoa_nycteris_(23736032736).jpg
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proteuxoa_nycteris_(23736032736).jpg
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5108243
The second is Proteuxoa Nycteris
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proteuxoa_nycteris_(23736032736).jpg
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proteuxoa_nycteris_(23736032736).jpg
donhe
wrote:
8 Mar 2019
A paper by Bobbie Hitchcock, Edward Edwards, & Andrew Mitchell, in Austral Entomology, 2 October 2017, moved it from Proteuxoa to Thoracolopha (although BOLD has both), namely
"Integrating dots and spots with COI sequence data reinstates Thoracolopha Turner, 1939
(Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), for 13 Australian species formerly in Proteuxoa Hampson, 1903"
see
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/aen.12293
"Integrating dots and spots with COI sequence data reinstates Thoracolopha Turner, 1939
(Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), for 13 Australian species formerly in Proteuxoa Hampson, 1903"
see
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/aen.12293
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