Proteuxoa scotti (R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
Mottled Noctuid
 (previously known as Agrotis scotti)
ACRONICTINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Proteuxoa scotti
(Photo: courtesy of James Duggan, Sandford, Tasmania)

The adult moth of this species has forewings that each have a complex brown pattern. The hindwings are off-white darkening at the margins. The wingspan is about 3 cms.

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

The species has been found in:

  • Tasmania.

    Proteuxoa scotti
    drawing by Felder & Rogenhofer, listed as Agrotis scotti    ,
    Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
    Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1875), Plate CX, fig. 16,
    image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Smithsonian Libraries.

    Further reading :

    Rudolf Felder & Alois F. Rogenhofer,
    Zoologischer Theil: Lepidoptera,
    Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara,
    Band 2, Abtheilung 2 (5) (1875), p. 2, and also Plate 110, fig. 16

    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 21 May 2014, updated 24 January 2023)