Elachyophtalma cotanoides

Elachyophtalma cotanoides is a moth in the family Bombycidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1920. It is found on New Guinea.[2]

Elachyophtalma cotanoides
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E. cotanoides
Binomial name
Elachyophtalma cotanoides

The wingspan is 56 mm. The forewings are chocolate rufous, the basal three-fifths of the costal are area orange and the nervures golden yellow washed with rufous on the inner four-fifths of the wing. There is a darker rufous and yellow double postmedian band. The hindwings are chocolate rufous.

References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Elachyophtalma cotanoidesโ€‹". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 2, 2018.
  2. Rothschild, Lord (1920). "On the genus Elachyophthalma Feld". Novitates Zoologicae. 27 (1): 321โ€“326 โ€“ via Biodiversity Heritage Library. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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