Cotana aroa

Cotana aroa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Eupterotidae
Genus: Cotana
Species: C. aroa
Binomial name
Cotana aroa
(Bethune-Baker, 1904)
Synonyms
  • Nervicompressa aroa Bethune-Baker, 1904

Cotana aroa is a moth in the Eupterotidae family. It was described by George Thomas Bethune-Baker in 1904.[1] It is found in New Guinea.[2]

The wingspan is about 71 mm. The forewings are chocolate-brown, with yellow nervures and a large yellow patch in the basal ont-third of the wing below the cell. There is a postmedian band of intranervular coalescent golden-yellow patches, the upper four wedge-shaped, the lower four arrowhead-shaped, the points of all truncated. The hindwings are the same ground colour, but with only six patches in the postmedian band, all of which are arrowhead-shaped, the lower three only having their points truncated.[3]

References

  1. ↑ LepIndex
  2. ↑ The Giant Lappet Moths (Lepidoptera: Eupterotidae) of Papua Indonesia
  3. ↑ On the genera Melanothrix, Drepanojana, Melandergon, Paracydas, Cotana, Hypercydas, Epicydas and Nervicompressa of the family Eupterotidae aith descriptions of new forms


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