Cotana castaneorufa

Cotana castaneorufa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Eupterotidae
Genus:	Cotana
Species:	C. castaneorufa
Binomial name
Cotana castaneorufa Rothschild, 1913

Cotana castaneorufa is a moth in the Eupterotidae family. It was described by Rothschild in 1913.^[1] It is found in New Guinea.^[2]

The wingspan is about 49 mm. The forewings are chocolate liver-brown with a tiny white dot at the base, an antemedian buff stigma followed by a buff transverse band which is distinct and broad at the costal half, growing narrower and indistinct on the inner half. There is a more or less indistinct postdiscal transverse greyish-olive outwardly curved chain of half moons. The hindwings are orange, the outer two-thirds almost completely suffused with liver-brown. There is a brown transverse line in the basal one-third and an orange one somewhat sinuate in the outer one-third.^[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