Creatonotos

Creatonotos
Creatonotos gangis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Subtribe:	Spilosomina
Genus:	Creatonotos Hübner, 1819
Type species
Phalaena interrupta Linnaeus, 1767
Synonyms
AmphissaWalker, 1855 PhissamaMoore, [1860]

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

"Palpi short and porrect. Hind tibiae with one pair of spurs. Fore wing rather narrow. Venation as in Spilosoma . Fore wing in some specimens 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

• 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

References

1. Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths. Vol. II. Taylor and Francis. p. 26. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.100745 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

• Dubatolov, V. & Holloway, J., 2007: A new species of the Creatonotos transiens-group (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) from Sulawesi, Indonesia. Bonner zoologische Beiträge55 (2): 113–121, Bonn.
• Freina, J.J. de, 2007: Creatonotos omanirana sp. n. aus dem Oman und dem Iran (Artiidae: Arctiinae). Nota Lepidopterologica30 (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 Apollo31 (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. Entomon24 (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 Japan27 (3): 111–117.

• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2023). "Search results Family: Arctiidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. doi:10.5519/s93616qw.