Proteuxoa euchroa (Lower, 1902)
 (previously known as Caradrina euchroa)
ACRONICTINAE,   NOCTUIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Proteuxoa euchroa
(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 2.5 cms.

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

This species has been found in Australia, including:

  • South Australia, and
  • Western Australia.

    Proteuxoa euchroa
    female, listed as Ariathisa euchroa,
    drawing by Horace Knight, printed by West, Newman & Co. for George F. Hampson in
    Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum, Noctuidæ, Volume VIII (1909), Plate CXXXI, fig. 25,
    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. 385, No. 4048, and also Plate 131, fig. 25.

    Oswald B. Lower,
    New Species of Australian Lepidoptera,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 26 (1902), pp. 653-654.

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    (written 13 February 2012, updated 14 August 2026)