Cotana neurina Turner, 1922 EUPTEROTIDAE,   BOMBYCOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

female
(Photo: courtesy of Graham McDonald, taken in north Queensland)

The adult moths of this species are dimorphic. The female is dark brown with various markings including a pale spot near the base of each forewing, and prominent pale veins ending in a zig-zag submarginal line on each of the four wings.

male
(Photo: courtesy of Graham McDonald, taken in north Queensland)

The males also have brown forewings, each with various variable markings, including a pale spot near the base, dark lines between fasciafascia, a pair of faint dark scalloped submarginal arcs with dark points, and a dark area on the margin just below the wing-tip. The hindwings of the males are orange, each with some variable faint dark markings, including one or two dark transverse lines.

The wingspans of both sexes are about 6 cms.

The species occurs in the tropical north of Australia in

Queensland.

underside
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

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Further reading :

Graham J. McDonald,
Moths of Tropical North Queensland,
Butterflies and Other Invertebrates Club,
Metamorphosis Australia,
Issue 75 (December 2014), pp. 7-12, Figures 1a and 1b.

A. Jefferis Turner,
Revision of of Australian Lepidoptera, Saturnidae, Bombycidae, Eupterotidae, Notodontidae,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 47 (1922), pp. 361-362, No. 2.

Paul Zborowski and Ted Edwards,
A Guide to Australian Moths,
CSIRO Publishing, 2007, p. 157.

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