''Catopta albothoracis'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of ...

in the family

Cossidae The Cossidae, the cossid millers or carpenter millers, make up a family of mostly large miller moths. This family contains over 110 genera with almost 700 known species, and many more species await description. Carpenter millers are nocturnal ...

. It was described by Bao-Zheng Hua, Io Chou, De-Qi Fang and Shu-Liang Chen in 1990. It is found in

Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of th ...

, China., 2013: A brief review of genus ''Catopta'' Staudinger, 1899 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) with description of a new species from China. ''Zootaxa'' 3709 (4): 330-340. Abstract

References

* , 2009: ''Catoptinae'' subfam. n., a new subfamily of carpenter-moths (Lepidoptera: Cossidae). ''Entomological Review'' 89 (8): 927-932. Moths described in 1990 Catoptinae {{Cossoidea-stub