''Catopta tropicalis'' 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 Yakovlev and Witt in 2009. It is found in northern

Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making it ...

., 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

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog
Moths described in 2009 Catoptinae {{Cossoidea-stub