Biology:Cotana kebeae
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Short description: Species of moth
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Eupterotidae |
| Genus: | Cotana |
| Species: | C. kebeae
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| Cotana kebeae (Bethune-Baker, 1904)
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Cotana kebeae is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by George Thomas 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
- ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I. et al., eds (2003). "Cotana kebeae". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/detail/?taxonno=57856.
- ↑ Zolotuhin, Vadim (October 22, 2012). "The Giant Lappet Moths (Lepidoptera: Eupterotidae) of Papua Indonesia". The Papua Insects Foundation. http://www.papua-insects.nl/insect%20orders/Lepidoptera/Eupterotidae/Eupterotidae%20list.htm.
- ↑ 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. http://biostor.org/reference/59007/page/1.
- ↑ New Lepidoptera from British New Guinea
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Wikidata ☰ Q13477484 entry
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