Cotana pallidipascia

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

Cotana pallidipascia 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 43 mm. The forewings are pale chocolate-brown with a whitish dot in the basal one-fourth below the cell and there is an indistinct shadowy black median line, as well as a postmedian double line which is greyish white inside and dark brown outside. The hindwings are paler chocolate-brown with an indistinct postmedian line.[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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