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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

GlennCocking wrote:

4 Mar 2019

I think this is more likely to be a Proteuxoa species

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.

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

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

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