Cotana brunnescens
| Cotana brunnescens | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Eupterotidae |
| Genus: | Cotana |
| Species: | C. brunnescens |
| Binomial name | |
| Cotana brunnescens Rothschild, 1917 | |
Cotana brunnescens 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 49 mm for males and 77 mm for females. The forewings of the males are deep chocolate liver-brown with two indistinct darker postmedian bands beyond which is a row of black dots. The hindwings are similar. Females have pale chocolate liver-brown forewings, with the basal two-thirds of the costo-subcostal area suffused with cinnamon-rufous and the nervures yellowish brown. There is a large cream-white patch below the middle of the cell and there is a postdiscal transverse band of eight intranervular cream-white patches, the upper five being wedge-shaped, the lower three lunate. The terminal ends of the nervures are marked with orange. The hindwings are similar, but there are only six lunate cream-white patches in a band.[3]