Proteuxoa metaneura (Lower, 1908)
Neat Noctuid
 (previously known as Prometopus metaneura)
ACRONICTINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Proteuxoa metaneura
(Photo: courtesy of Daniel Kurek, Hattah, Victoria)

The forewings of the adult moth each have a pattern of light and dark brown, including a reddish streak near the base. The hind wings are pale brown darkening toward the margins, with dark veins. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

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

The species occurs in Australia, including:

  • Victoria,
  • South Australia, and
  • Western Australia.

    Proteuxoa metaneura
    male, drawing by George Francis Hampson, listed as Omphaletis metaneura,
    Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum,
    Noctuidæ, Volume VIII (1909), Plate CXXXI, fig. 17,
    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. 380, No. 4078, 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.

    Oswald B. Lower,
    New Australian Lepidoptera. No. XXV.,
    Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia,
    Volume 32 (1908), p. 111.

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    (written 8 December 2011, 24 January 2023)