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Cotana kebeae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Eupterotidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Cotana

Cotana kebeae

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

The wingspan is 48-56 mm. 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.

Subspecies

  • Cotana kebeae kebeae
  • Cotana kebeae grandis Rothschild, 1917
  • References

    Cotana kebeae Wikipedia