Cometaster
| Faint owl moth | |
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| Genus: | Cometaster Hampson, 1913 |
| Species: | C. pyrula |
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| Cometaster pyrula (Hopffer, 1857) | |
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Cometaster is a monotypic moth genus of the family Erebidae erected by George Hampson in 1913. Its only species, Cometaster pyrula, the faint owl moth or ying-yang moth, was first described by Carl Heinrich Hopffer in 1857.