Creatonotos
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Subtribe: | Spilosomina |
| Genus: | Creatonotos Hübner, 1819 |
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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.
Description
[edit]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
[edit]The genus contains the following species:
Creatonotos sensu stricto
[edit]- Creatonotos gangis (Linnaeus, 1763)
- Creatonotos interrupta (Linnaeus, 1767)
- Creatonotos leucanioides Holland, 1893
- Creatonotos leucanioides albidior Wiltshire, 1986
- Creatonotos omanirana de Freina, 2007
- Creatonotos fasciatus (Candèze, 1927)
- Cretonotos fasciatus pljustshi Dubatolov, 2010
- Creatonotos perineti Rothschild, 1933
- Creatonotos punctivitta (Walker, 1855)
Subgenus Phissama Moore, [1860] 1858-1859
[edit]- Creatonotos kishidai Dubatolov & Holloway, 2007
- Creatonotos transiens (Walker, 1855)
- Creatonotos transiens albina (Daniel, 1971)
- Creatonotos transiens koni Miyake, 1909
- Creatonotos transiens sundana Nakamura, 1976
- Creatonotos transiens vacillans (Walker, 1855)
- Creatonotos wilemani Rothschild, 1933
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
Wikispecies has information related to Creatonotos.
- Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Arctiidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.
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