Cotana kebeae

Cotana kebeae
Scientific classification
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 Eupterotidae family. It was described by 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

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
4. New Lepidoptera from British New Guinea