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Noctuoid moths (except Arctiinae)

Noctuoid moths (except Arctiinae)

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This moth sub-category for the superfamily Noctuoidea contains the large families Noctuidae and Erebidae as well the smaller Euteliidae, Nolidae, Notodontidae and Oenosandridae.  The Arctiinae also belong to this superfamily, but are distinctive and well known so are given their own moth sub-category

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Noctuoid moths (except Arctiinae)

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ibaird wrote:
30 min ago
I understood that 'acronyctoides' was the Australian subspecies of the cosmopolitatan species A. leucosmalis.
Yes, the carerpillar does match the photo on p.163 of McQhillan et al (2019).
Aedia leucomelas acronyctoides
WendyEM wrote:
5 hrs ago
I am not sure about the sub species ?
ref.
Caterpillars, Moths and their Plants of southern Australia
by Peter McQuillan, Jan Forrest, David Keane & Roger Grund
Publ. Butterfly Conservation South Australia 2019 p. 163 Fig. 1
Aedia leucomelas acronyctoides
DianneClarke wrote:
8 hrs ago
There is another on iNat - Belconnen 2Mar2024.
Paromphale caeca (Acronictinae)
ibaird wrote:
Yesterday
Well spotted, WendyEM (Wendy Moore)! Wendy is cited along with M. Hewish as doscumenting this undescribed species for Part 9, 'Proteuxoa sp.(17) 'pages 1/2, 2/2 for the publication Moths of Victoria. On page 1/2 set specimens recorded by I.F.B Common at the Black Mt CSIRO light trap, 19 April 1956 and at Burnley 3 April 1969, collector unknown,, are illustrated. The authors state the species is known from the ACT, NSW and Queensland. This record confirms the species is known from NatureMap's South Coast region at Tathra NSW.
A new species for NatureMapr and NatureMapr's South Coast region.
Proteuxoa sp. (17) (MoV, Part 9)
ibaird wrote:
Yesterday
The Moths of Victoria authors (Part 9) have provided notes distinguishing this undescribed Proteuxoa sp.(17) as having ''broader, dark brown forewings than P microspila, contrasting white 'hair-pin' reniform marks and a white orbicular spot joined by a distinctive black triangular.mark'
Proteuxoa sp. (17) (MoV, Part 9)

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