Proteuxoa angasi (R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875) Hooked Noctuid (one synonym : Prometopus endesma Lower, 1902) ACRONICTINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

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

(Photo: courtesy of A. O'Brien, Pine Grove, Victoria)

The forewings of the adult moth each have a pattern of light and dark brown, including a pale subcostal streak, and pale area along the margin. The hind wings are pale brown, darker at the bases, with dark veins.

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

The species occurs in Australia, including:

South Australia.

drawing by Felder & Rogenhofer, listed as Luperina angasi,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1875), Plate CIX, fig. 26,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

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Further reading :

Rudolf Felder & Alois F. Rogenhofer,
Zoologischer Theil: Lepidoptera,
Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1875), p. 13, and also Plate 109, fig. 26.

Peter Marriott & Marilyn Hewish,
Moths of Victoria - Part 9,
Cutworms and Allies - NOCTUOIDEA (C),
Entomological Society of Victoria, 2020, pp. 18-19.

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(written 8 December 2011, updated 23 January 2023)