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Cotana meeki

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Cotana meeki is a moth in the Eupterotidae family. It was described by Rothschild in 1917. It is found in New Guinea. 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 patc
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0