''Sarisophora melanotata'' is a

moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...

in the family

Lecithoceridae The Lecithoceridae, or long-horned moths, are a family of small moths described by Simon Le Marchand in 1947. Although lecithocerids are found throughout the world, the great majority are found in the Indomalayan realm and the southern part of the ...

. It was described by Kyu-Tek Park in 2012. It is found in

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...

Etymology

The species name derived from the Greek word ''melan'', meaning black.Park, K. T. (2012)
"Lecithoceridae (Gelechioidea, Lepidoptera) of New Guinea Part X: Review of the genus ''Sarisophora'', with descriptions of seven new species"
''Tropical Lepidoptera Research''. 22 (1): 8-15.

References

Moths described in 2012 Sarisophora {{Lecithocerinae-stub