Cotana aroa

Cotana aroa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Eupterotidae
Genus:	Cotana
Species:	C. aroa
Binomial name
	Cotana aroa; (Bethune-Baker, 1904)
Synonyms
	Nervicompressa aroaBethune-Baker, 1904;

Last updated January 29, 2023

Cotana aroa is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by George Thomas Bethune-Baker in 1904.^[1] It is found in New Guinea.^[2]

The wingspan is about 71 mm. The forewings are chocolate brown, with yellow nervures and a large yellow patch in the basal one-third of the wing below the cell. There is a postmedian band of intranervular coalescent golden-yellow patches, the upper four wedge shaped, the lower four arrowhead shaped, the points of all truncated. The hindwings are the same ground colour, but with only six patches in the postmedian band, all of which are arrowhead shaped, the lower three only having their points truncated.^[3]

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References

↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Cotana aroa". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 17, 2018.
↑ 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 .

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[1] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Cotana aroa". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 17, 2018.

[2] Zolotuhin, Vadim (October 22, 2012). "The Giant Lappet Moths (Lepidoptera: Eupterotidae) of Papua Indonesia". Papua-Insects.nl. The Papua Insects Foundation.

[3] 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 .

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