Cotana variegata

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

Cotana variegata 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 47 mm for males and 74 mm for females. The basal one-fourth of the forewings of the males is cream white, with an oblique chocolate streak, below which is a looped zigzag line which forms a white stigma just below the streak. There is an antemedian dark-chocolate transverse band and the central one-third of the wing is pale chocolate, becoming paler distad. The outer one-third is creamy grey with a crenulate postdiscal brown line, a dark-chocolate spot before the tornus and a quadrate dark-chocolate patch between vein seven and half-way between veins six and five. The hindwings are orange with a postmedian transverse crenulate dark band beyond which is a similar lunate one. Females have chocolate-rufous-brown forewings with yellow nervures and a round white spot below the cell in the basal one-third of the wing. There is a slightly curved median darker chocolate band and a postdiscal row of eight intranervular wedge-shaped white patches. The hindwing ground colour and median band are similar, but with a postdiscal row of wedge-shaped golden-yellow patches. [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 variegata". 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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