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Cotachena Moore 1885

  • 1. Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata 700053, West Bengal, India
  • 2. Department of Zoology & Environmental Sciences, Punjabi University, Patiala, 147002, Punjab, India
  • 3. Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Department of Forest Protection and Entomology, Kamýcká 129, 165 00 Praha 6 - Suchdol, Czech Republic

Description

Genus Cotachena Moore, [1885] 1884 –7: 275

Type species: Botys histricalis Walker, 1859a, by monotypy

= Cotochena (misspell.) (Butler 1887: 122)

= Syndicastis Meyrick, 1889: 507

Type species: Syndicastis heteromima Meyrick, 1889, by monotypy

= Mesothyris Warren, 1892: 300

Type species: Botys aluensis Butler, 1887, by original designation

Notes

Published as part of Singh, Navneet, Ranjan, Rahul, Talukdar, Avishek, Joshi, Rahul, Kirti, Jagbir Singh, Chandra, Kailash & Mally, Richard, 2022, A catalogue of Indian Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera), pp. 1-423 in Zootaxa 5197 (1) on page 267, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5197.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7252292

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References

  • Walker, F. (1859 a) List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XVI - Deltoides, XVII - Pyralides, Part XVIII - Pyralides, Part XIX - Pyralides. The Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, iv + 1036 pp.
  • Butler, A. G. (1887) Descriptions of new species of Heterocerous Lepidoptera (Pyralites) from the Solomon Islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany and Geology, Series 5, 20, 114 - 124. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222938709460019
  • Meyrick, E. (1889) On some Lepidoptera from New Guinea. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1889, 455 - 522. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1889. tb 00932. x
  • Warren, W. (1892) Descriptions of new genera and species of Pyralidae contained in the British Museum collection. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany and Geology, Series 6, 9, 172 - 179 + 294 - 302 + 389 - 397 + 429 - 442. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222939208677357