1. Live pictures

1.1. Imago

2. Diagnosis

1-2: ♂, data see label (coll. & photos: Egbert Friedrich)

2.1. Original description

1: Warren (1896: 292) [from copyright-free scan at www.biodiversitylibrary.org]

3. Further information

3.1. Other combinations

• Pyrrhorachis cornuta Warren, 1896 [original combination]

3.2. Subspecies

• Pyrrhorachis cornuta callicrossa Prout, 1934
• Pyrrhorachis cornuta pisochlora Prout, 1934
• Pyrrhorachis cornuta woodfordi Prout, 1934
• Pyrrhorachis cornuta exquisitata Fletcher, 1957

3.3. Taxonomy and Faunistics

The species is described from a male from the Fergusson-Island (Papua New Guinea). It is often seen as a synonym of Comostola pyrrhogona.

(Author: Erwin Rennwald)

3.4. Literature

• Original description: Warren, W. (1896): New species of Drepanulidae, Uraniidae, Epiplemidae, and Geometridae from the Papuan region. — Novitates Zoologicae 3: 272-306.