Proteuxoa adelopa

Proteuxoa adelopa (Hampson, 1909)
(previously known as Ariathisa adelopa)
ACRONICTINAE, NOCTUIDAE, NOCTUOIDEA

Proteuxoa adelopa
(Photo: courtesy of Andrew Mitchell, Australian Museum)

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 4 cms.

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

This species has been found in Australia, including:

male, drawing by George Francis Hampson, listed as Ariathisa adelopa,
Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalćnć in the British Museum,
Noctuidć, Volume VIII (1909), Plate CXXXII, fig. 23,
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. 407, No. 4082, and also Plate 132, fig. 23.

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

Australian
Australian Butterflies

Australian
Australian Moths

(written 27 December 2020)