Biology:Cotana variegata

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Short description: Species of moth

Cotana variegata
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Male
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Female
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Eupterotidae
Genus: Cotana
Species:
C. variegata
Binomial name
Cotana variegata
Rothschild, 1917

Cotana variegata 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 47 mm for males and 74 mm for females. The basal one-fourth of the forewings of the males is cream white, with an oblique chocolate streak, below which is a looped zigzag line which forms a white stigma just below the streak. There is an antemedian dark-chocolate transverse band and the central one-third of the wing is pale chocolate, becoming paler distad. The outer one-third is creamy grey with a crenulate postdiscal brown line, a dark-chocolate spot before the tornus and a quadrate dark-chocolate patch between vein seven and half-way between veins six and five. The hindwings are orange with a postmedian transverse crenulate dark band beyond which is a similar lunate one. Females have chocolate-rufous-brown forewings with yellow nervures and a round white spot below the cell in the basal one-third of the wing. There is a slightly curved median darker chocolate band and a postdiscal row of eight intranervular wedge-shaped white patches. The hindwing ground colour and median band are similar, but with a postdiscal row of wedge-shaped golden-yellow patches.[3]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q13477472 entry