Creatonotos
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Tribe: | Arctiini |
| Subtribe: | Spilosomina |
| Genus: | Creatonotos Hübner, 1819 |
| Type species | |
| Phalaena interrupta Linnaeus, 1767 | |
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Creatonotos is a genus of tiger moths in the Erebidae family. The moths in the genus are found in the Afrotropics, South and East Asia, Sundaland and Australia.
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 et 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
- 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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