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Cotana bisecta

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Cotana bisecta
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C. bisecta
Binomial name
Cotana bisecta

Cotana bisecta is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Walter 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. ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Cotana bisecta​". 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.