Biology:Cotaena

Short description: Genus of moths

Cotaena
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Glyphipterigidae
Genus:	Cotaena Walker, 1865
Synonyms
Myrsila Boisduval, [1875] Encamina Meyrick, 1915

Cotaena is a genus of sedge moths originally described by Francis Walker in 1865.

Taxonomy

The genus was originally described in the Aegeriidae (=Sesiidae), transferred to the Heliodinidae by Edward Meyrick, to the Schreckensteiniidae by Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher, to the Heliodinidae by Clas Michael Naumann and finally to the Glyphipterigidae by John B. Heppner and W. Donald Duckworth.

Species

• Cotaena magnifica Sohn & Heppner, 2015 (from Brazil)
• Cotaena mediana Walker, 1864 (Amazon basin)
• Cotaena plenella (Busck, 1914) (from Panama)
• Cotaena phlegyropa (Meyrick, 1915) (from Guyana and French Guiana)
• Cotaena tchalla Sohn & Heppner, 2015 (from Brazil)

References

• Sohn & Heppner, 2015. Two new Species of Cotaena Walker (Lepidoptera: Glyphipterigidae) from Brazil. Tropical Lepidoptera Research, 25(1): 5-7, 2015

External links

• Cotaena mediana at Zipcodezoo.com

Wikidata ☰ Q5175272 entry