Cotana bisecta

Cotana bisecta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Eupterotidae
Genus: Cotana
Species: C. bisecta
Binomial name
Cotana bisecta
Rothschild, 1917

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

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.[3]

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
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