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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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Bombycidae |
| Genus: | Elachyophtalma |
| Species: | E. cotanoides
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| Binomial name | |
| Elachyophtalma cotanoides Rothschild, 1920[1]
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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 edit
- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Elachyophtalma cotanoides". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 2, 2018.
- ^ Rothschild, Lord (1920). "On the genus Elachyophthalma Feld". Novitates Zoologicae. 27 (1): 321–326 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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