Proteuxoa cornuta

Proteuxoa cornuta (Lower, 1902)
(previously known as Prometopus cornuta)
ACRONICTINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA

Proteuxoa cornuta
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Bevan Buirchell, Jarrahdale, Western Australia)

The moths of this species have a complex brown pattern on each forewing, and plain pale brown hindwings with dark veins. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

This species occurs in Australia, including:

female, drawing by George Francis Hampson, listed as Ariathisa cornuta,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalćnć in the British Museum,
Noctuidć, Volume VIII (1909), Plate CXXXI, fig. 24,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

Further reading

George Francis Hampson,
Catalogue of Noctuidae in the British Museum,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum,
Volume 8 (1909), p. 385, No. 4047, and also Plate 131, fig. 24.

Oswald B. Lower,
New Species of Australian Lepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 26 (1902), p. 646.

Australian
Australian Butterflies

Australian
Australian Moths

(written 8 February 2012, updated 13 February 2012, 22 August 2019, 26 August 2021)