Biology:Cotana kebeae

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Short description: Species of moth

Cotana kebeae
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Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
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 family Eupterotidae. It was described by George Thomas 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

  • Cotana kebeae kebeae
  • Cotana kebeae grandis Rothschild, 1917

References

Wikidata ☰ Q13477484 entry