Creatonotos
Genus of moths
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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.
| Creatonotos | |
|---|---|
| Creatonotos gangis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Subtribe: | Spilosomina |
| Genus: | Creatonotos Hübner, 1819 |
| Type species | |
| Phalaena interrupta | |
| Synonyms | |
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Description
Species
The genus contains the following species:
Creatonotos sensu stricto
- 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
- 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