Cotana biagi

Cotana biagi
	Male
	Female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Eupterotidae
Genus:	Cotana
Species:	C. biagi
Binomial name
	Cotana biagi; (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
Synonyms
	Paracydas biagi Bethune-Baker, 1908;

Cotana biagi is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by George Thomas Bethune-Baker in 1908.[1] It is found in New Guinea.[2]

The wingspan is about 91 mm. The forewings are deep chocolate brown, with the basal three-fourths of the costa, the base of the wing and the subcostal area bright rufous. The nervures are rufous and there is a large antemedian primrose-yellow patch of raised scales on and between veins two to five. There is also a large postmedian curved white patch running out distad between the nervures into wedge-shaped projections. The margin is rufous yellow. The hindwings are deep chocolate, with the base of the wing and abdominal area rufous clothed with long hairs. The nervures are rufous and there is a row of six postmedian white patches. The margin is rufous yellow.[3]

Subspecies

Cotana biagi biagi
Cotana biagi occidentalis Rothschild, 1932 (junior primary homonym)

References

Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Paracydas biagi". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 17, 2018.
Zolotuhin, Vadim (October 22, 2012). "The Giant Lappet Moths (Lepidoptera: Eupterotidae) of Papua Indonesia". Papua-Insects.nl. The Papua Insects Foundation.
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 – via BioStor.

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[1] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Paracydas biagi". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 17, 2018.

[2] Zolotuhin, Vadim (October 22, 2012). "The Giant Lappet Moths (Lepidoptera: Eupterotidae) of Papua Indonesia". Papua-Insects.nl. The Papua Insects Foundation.

[3] 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 – via BioStor.