About Cometaster pyrula Hopffer, 1857
Cometaster is a monotypic moth genus in the family Erebidae, which was erected by George Hampson in 1913. The genus contains only one species: Cometaster pyrula, commonly known as the faint owl moth or ying-yang moth. This species was first formally described by Carl Heinrich Hopffer in 1857, and its scientific name bears this author and year of publication. Cometaster pyrula is distributed across Eastern and Southern Africa. It has been recorded primarily in Botswana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
