Cotaena
Sign in to saveCotaena is a genus of sedge moths originally described by Francis Walker in 1865.
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It is catalogued under topics including Glyphipterigidae, Moth genera and Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist).
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilyGlyphipterigidae
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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 Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher, to the Heliodinidae by Clas Michael Naumann and finally to the Glyphipterigidae by John B. Heppner and W. Donald Duckworth.
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