''Cotaena tchalla'' 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

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.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 {{Glyphipterigidae-stub