Proteuxoa marginalis

Proteuxoa marginalis (Walker, 1865)
Red-bordered Noctuid
(one synonym : Nitocris exundans Guenée, 1868)
ACRONICTINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

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

The forewings of the adult moth each have a pattern of dark brown, including a comma-shaped mark near the middle, and a pale irregular band along the margin. The hindwings are also brown, fading toward the bases, with dark veins. The wingspan is about 4 cms.

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

The species occurs in Australia, including:

New South Wales,

Victoria,

Tasmania.

male, drawing by George Francis Hampson, listed as Omphaletis exundans,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
Noctuidæ, Volume VIII (1909), Plate CXXXI, fig. 14,
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. 377, No. 4034, and also Plate 131, fig. 14.

Peter Marriott & Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria - Part 9,
Cutworms and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA (C),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2020, pp. 20-21.

Francis Walker,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera,
List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,
Part 33, Supplement part 3 (1865), p. 741.

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(updated 22 October 2011, 17 June 2018, 22 August 2019, 24 December 2020)