Cotana kebeae
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]
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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.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Cotana kebeae". 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.
- New Lepidoptera from British New Guinea
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