{{Short description|Group of insects}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = Cossina | image= Antheraea_pernyi_female_sjh.JPG | display_parents = 3 | taxon = Cossina (section) | authority = Meyrick, 1907 }}

'''Cossina''' is the name for both a section and subsection of Ditrysian insects in the order containing both butterflies and moths having a dorsal heart vessel. The section named Cossina contains two subsections: one also named Cossina (containing mostly smaller moths in the superfamilies Castnioidea, Cossoidea and Tortricoidea) having pupae with dorsal spines; and subsection Bombycina (containing generally larger sized moths and butterflies in the superfamilies Bombycoidea, Calliduloidea, Cimelioidea, Drepanoidea, Geometroidea, Noctuoidea, Papilionoidea and Uranioidea) having spineless pupae.<ref>page 664 of Capinera</ref>

==See also== * Taxonomy of the Lepidoptera

==Sources== * Capinera, John, editor (2008), ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=i9ITMiiohVQC&q=Cossina Encyclopedia of Entomology]'', 2nd ed., Springer Verlag, New York.

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Category:Ditrysia Category:Taxa named by Edward Meyrick

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