''Carathis septentrionalis'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

of the family

Erebidae The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwings ('' Catocala'') ...

first described by Vitor Osmar Becker in 2011. It is found in

Costa Rica Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República de Costa Rica), is a country in the Central American region of North America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the no ...

.Becker, V. O. (2011)
"A review of the neotropical moth genus ''Carathis'' Grote (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae)"
''Tropical Lepidoptera Research''. 21 (2): 95-97.

References

Moths described in 2011 Phaegopterina Moths of Central America {{Phaegopterina-stub