Cotana rosselliana

Cotana rosselliana is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1917.[1] It is found in New Guinea.[2]

Cotana rosselliana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Eupterotidae
Genus:
Cotana
Species:
C. rosselliana
Binomial name
Cotana rosselliana
Synonyms
  • Cotana continentalis Rothschild, 1932
  • Cotana diluta Rothschild, 1917

The wingspan is about 54 mm for males and 65 mm for females. The basal three-fifths of the forewings of the males is orange brown, while the outer two-fifths are paler more suffused with yellow. There is a broad irregular subbasal dark-brown band followed by a dull yellow stigma ringed with dark brown and a curved median black-brown band, as well as three crenulate black lines of varying sharpness in outer the two-fifths and a dark-brown patch below the apex. Females have saffron-yellow forewings with a round white spot below the median in the basal one-third and there is a crenulate lunate transverse postdiscal white band. The hindwings are saffron yellow with a lunate postdiscal white line.[3]

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Cotana rosselliana". 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.


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