Cotana variegata
| Cotana variegata | |
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| Male | |
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| Female | |
| Scientific classification | |
| 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 Eupterotidae family. It was described by 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]