Cotana brunnescens

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Cotana brunnescens
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Eupterotidae
Genus: Cotana
Species:
C. brunnescens
Binomial name
Cotana brunnescens
Rothschild, 1917

Cotana brunnescens is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1917. [1] It is found in New Guinea. [2]

The wingspan is about 49 mm for males and 77 mm for females. The forewings of the males are deep chocolate liver brown with two indistinct darker postmedian bands beyond which is a row of black dots. The hindwings are similar. Females have pale chocolate liver-brown forewings, with the basal two-thirds of the costo-subcostal area suffused with cinnamon rufous and the nervures yellowish brown. There is a large cream-white patch below the middle of the cell and there is a postdiscal transverse band of eight intranervular cream-white patches, the upper five being wedge shaped, the lower three lunate. The terminal ends of the nervures are marked with orange. The hindwings are similar, but there are only six lunate cream-white patches in a band. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Cotana brunnescens". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 20, 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.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .


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