Cotana meeki
| Cotana meeki | |
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| Male | |
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| Female | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Eupterotidae |
| Genus: | Cotana |
| Species: | C. meeki |
| Binomial name | |
| Cotana meeki Rothschild, 1917 | |
Cotana meeki 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 48 mm for males and 69 mm for females. The basal one-third of the forewings of the males is cream-white, with an irregular somewhat hourglass-shaped rufous-chocolate patch running into the middle from the costa with a white dot in the centre. From this patch, a somewhat indistinct irregular dark line runs to the inner margin. The median one-third is chocolate, bordered exteriorly by a lunulate whitish band and with the nervures white. There is also a postmedian broad crenulate lavender-grey band edged narrowly outwardly with chocolate. The outer one-fourth below vein five is creamy white, above vein five chocolate with a large greyish-white apical patch. The basal two-thirds of the hindwings is orange, while the outer one-third is chocolate. There are some indistinct darker shadow lines in the basal portion and a lunulate cream band in the outer one-third. The marginal line is cream. The base of the forewings of the females is reddish orange, while the costo-subcostal area is orange chestnut-brown for the basal two-thirds. The rest of the wing is rufous maroon-chocolate. There is a large white patch in the basal one-third of the wing below the median and a broad white postdiscal transverse band running out into long intranervular projections distad, with the upper four of these being more pointed. The hindwing ground-colour is similar, but the postdiscal band is more distinctly lunulate.[3]