Cotana kebeae

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

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

The wingspan is 48-56 mm.[3] The forewings are cinnamon-brown, but paler in the medial area and with a straight oblique dark purplish brown medial stripe, followed by a slightly curved narrower similar coloured postmedial line edged with paler externally. In this edging is a row of dark dots on each vein. The apex has a darker suffusion. The hindwings are orange, with a trace of a medial line and a suffused lunulated postmedial stripe which is edged with pale externally. There is a row of dark dots on the veins.[4]

Subspecies

References

  1. ↑ LepIndex
  2. ↑ The Giant Lappet Moths (Lepidoptera: Eupterotidae) of Papua Indonesia
  3. ↑ On the genera Melanothrix, Drepanojana, Melandergon, Paracydas, Cotana, Hypercydas, Epicydas and Nervicompressa of the family Eupterotidae aith descriptions of new forms
  4. ↑ New Lepidoptera from British New Guinea
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