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Cotana bisecta

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Eupterotidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Cotana

Cotana bisecta is a moth in the Eupterotidae family. It was described by Rothschild in 1917. It is found in New Guinea.

The wingspan is about 52 mm. The forewings are dark brown, somewhat suffused with chestnut-rufous and with a median black band, a postmedian indistinct blackish band beyond which is a lunate buffish band on the outside of which is a line of black dots joined by a chain of indistinct blackish lunules. The hindwings are orange-yellow with an antemedian transverse line of sooty black and a median indistinct blackish cloud band followed by two lunulate bands.

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Cotana bisecta Wikipedia