Cotana kebeae explained

Cotana kebeae is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by George Thomas Bethune-Baker in 1904. It is found in New Guinea.[1]

The wingspan is 48–56 mm.[2] 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.[3]

Subspecies

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Zolotuhin . Vadim . October 22, 2012 . The Giant Lappet Moths (Lepidoptera: Eupterotidae) of Papua Indonesia . Papua-Insects.nl . The Papua Insects Foundation.
  2. 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 . 10.5962/bhl.part.23154 . BioStor. free .
  3. http://biostor.org/reference/57857 New Lepidoptera from British New Guinea