''Cotaena magnifica'' is a species of
sedge moth in the genus ''
Cotaena
''Cotaena'' is a genus of sedge moths originally described by Francis Walker in 1865.
Taxonomy
The genus was originally described in the Aegeriidae (=Sesiidae), transferred to the Heliodinidae by Edward Meyrick, to the Schreckensteiniidae by Th ...
''. It was described by Jae-Cheon Sohn and John B. Heppner in 2015. It is found in the
Amazon basin
The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers an area of about , or about 35.5 percent of the South American continent. It is located in the countries of Bolivi ...
of
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
.
Sohn & Heppner, 2015. Two New Species of ''Cotaena'' Walker (Lepidoptera: Glyphipterigidae) from Brazil. ''Tropical Lepidoptera Research'', 25(1): 5-7, 2015
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References
Moths described in 2015
Glyphipterigidae
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