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Elachyophtalma cotanoides
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Bombycidae
Genus:	Elachyophtalma
Species:	E. cotanoides
Binomial name
Elachyophtalma cotanoides Rothschild, 1920

Elachyophtalma cotanoides is a moth in the family Bombycidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1920. It is found on New Guinea.

The wingspan is 56 mm. The forewings are chocolate rufous, the basal three-fifths of the costal are area orange and the nervures golden yellow washed with rufous on the inner four-fifths of the wing. There is a darker rufous and yellow double postmedian band. The hindwings are chocolate rufous.

References

1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Elachyophtalma cotanoides​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 2, 2018.
2. Rothschild, Lord (1920). "On the genus Elachyophthalma Feld". Novitates Zoologicae. 27 (1): 321–326 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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