Cotana castaneorufa
| Cotana castaneorufa | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Eupterotidae |
| Genus: | Cotana |
| Species: | C. castaneorufa
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| Binomial name | |
| Cotana castaneorufa Rothschild, 1913
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Cotana castaneorufa is a moth in the family Eupterotidae described by Walter Rothschild in 1913.[1] It is found in New Guinea.[2]
The wingspan is about 49 mm. The forewings are chocolate liver brown with a tiny white dot at the base and an antemedian buff stigma, followed by a buff transverse band that is distinct and broad at the costal half and narrows, becoming indistinct on the inner half. There is a somewhat indistinct postdiscal transverse greyish-olive outwardly curved chain of half moons. The hindwings are orange, the outer two-thirds almost completely suffused with liver brown. The hindwings have a brown transverse line in the basal one-third and a somewhat sinuate orange one in the outer one-third.[3]
References
- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Cotana castaneorufa". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 20, 2018. Note: This source has 1917 as the year of description.
- ^ Zolotuhin, Vadim (October 22, 2012). "The Giant Lappet Moths (Lepidoptera: Eupterotidae) of Papua Indonesia". Papua-Insects.nl. The Papua Insects Foundation.
- ^ Rothschild, Lord (1917). "On the Genera Melanothrix, Drepanojana, Melanergon, Paracydas, Cotana, Hypercydas, Epicydas, and Nervicompressa of the Family Eupterotidae with Descriptions of New Forms". Novitates Zoologicae. 24: 463–492. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.23154 – via BioStor. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.