''Cotaena phlegyropa'' is a species of sedge moths 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

Edward Meyrick Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854, in Ramsbury – 31 March 1938, at Thornhanger, Marlborough) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern micr ...

in 1915. It is found in

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and

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References

Moths described in 1915 Glyphipterigidae {{Glyphipterigidae-stub