Urota

{{Short description|Genus of moths}}

{{Taxobox

| image = Saturnia3Westwood.jpg

| image_caption = largest one

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis = Insecta

| ordo = Lepidoptera

| superfamilia = Bombycoidea

| familia = Saturniidae

| genus = Urota

| genus_authority = Westwood, 1849

| species = U. sinope

| binomial = Urota sinope

| binomial_authority = Westwood, 1849

| synonyms =

}}

Urota is a monotypic moth genus in the family Saturniidae erected by John O. Westwood in 1849. Its single species, Urota sinope, was described by the same author in the same year.{{cite web |last1=Rougerie |first1=R. |last2=Collective of iBOL Saturniidae expert taxonomists |name-list-style=amp |date=2009 |url=http://www.lepbarcoding.org/saturnidae/species_checklists.php |title=Online list of valid and available names of the Saturniidae of the World |website=Lepidoptera Barcode of Life |accessdate=July 26, 2017}} It was described from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |url=http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/bombycoidea/saturniidae/saturniinae/urota/ |title=Urota Westwood, 1849 |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=November 15, 2018}}