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Cotaena

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Cotaena
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Glyphipterigidae
Genus: Cotaena
Walker, 1865
Synonyms
  • Myrsila Boisduval, [1875]
  • Encamina Meyrick, 1915

Cotaena is a genus of sedge moths originally described by Francis Walker in 1865.

Taxonomy

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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.[1]

Species

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References

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