Proteuxoa porphyrescens

A Noctuid moth at Ainslie, ACT

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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,

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