Creatonotos

Creatonotos is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. The moths in the genus are found in the Afrotropics, South and East Asia, Sundaland and Australia.

Creatonotos
Creatonotos gangis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Subtribe: Spilosomina
Genus: Creatonotos
Hübner, 1819
Type species
Phalaena interrupta
Synonyms
  • Amphissa Walker, 1855
  • Phissama Moore, [1860]

Description

Palpi short and porrect. Hind tibia with one pair of sours. Forewings rather narrow. Forewings in some species with vein 10 from cell and vein 5 in both wings, sometimes from above angle of cell.[1]

Species

The genus contains the following species:

Creatonotos sensu stricto

Subgenus Phissama Moore, [1860] 1858-1859
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References
  1. Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  • Dubatolov, V. & Holloway, J., 2007: A new species of the Creatonotos transiens-group (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) from Sulawesi, Indonesia. Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55 (2): 113-121, Bonn.
  • Freina, J.J. de, 2007: Creatonotos omanirana sp. n. aus dem Oman und dem Iran (Artiidae: Arctiinae). Nota lepidopterologica 30 (2): 375-386, Dresden.
  • Freina J.J. de, 2010: Beitrag zur afrotropische Arctiidaefauna: Bemerkungen und Korrekturen zum Artenspektrum der Genera Creatonotos Hübner, [1819], Afrowatsonius Dubatolov, 2006 und Dubatolovia gen. n. (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae, Arctiinae). Nachrichten des Entomologische Vereins Apollo 31 (1/2): 1-8.
  • Kirti, J.S. & Kaleka, A.S., 1999: Reporting of a new species under genus Creatonotos Hübner (Arctiinae: Arctiidae: Lepidoptera) from India. Entomon 24 (2): 135-141, University of Kerala: Kariavattom, Trivandrum, India.
  • Nakamura, M., 1976: Notes on the geographical variations of Creatonotos transiens Walker with descriptions of new species and two new subspecies (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Tyô to Ga. Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 27 (3): 111-117.


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