Creatonotos

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Cladus: Macroheterocera
Superfamilia: Noctuoidea

Familia: Erebidae
Subfamilia: Arctiinae
Tribus: Arctiini
Subtribus: Spilosomina
Genus: Creatonotos
Subgenus: C. (Phissama)

Species: C. fasciatus – C. flavicinctus – C. gangis – C. interrupta – C. leucanioides – C. nigergangis – C. omanirana – C. perineti – C. punctivitta
Creatonotos sensu lato:

C. flavidus
Uncertain taxa:

Species: C. aula – C. camula – C. cinerascens – C. costalis – C. defasciata – C. feminatus – C. flavoabdominalis – C. nigrescens – C. pallida – C. pallidior – C. pedunculata –

Creatonotos gangis

Name

Creatonotos Hübner, 1819

Type species: Phalaena interrupta Linnaeus, 1767
References

Dubatolov, V.V., 2009: Reviewing the African tiger-moth genera: 1. A new genus, two new subgenera and a species list from the expedition to Malawi by V. Kovtunovich & P. Ustjuzhanin in 2008-2009, with further taxonomic notes on South African Arctiinae. Atalanta 40 (1-2): 285–301.
Dubatolov, Vladimir V. & Jeremy D. Holloway, 2007: A new species of the Creatonotos transiens group (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) from Sulawesi, Indonesia. Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55 (2): 113–121. Full article: [1]
Freina de, J.J., 2007: Creatonotos omanirana sp. n. aus dem Oman und dem Iran (Artiidae: Arctiinae). Nota Lepidopterologica 30 (2): 375—386. Full article: [2].
Freina de, J.J., 2010: Über das Artenspektrum der Gattung Creatonotos Hübner, 1816 auf der Arabischen Halbinsel mit einer Revision der afrotropischen Creatonotos leucanioides Holland, 1893- Artengruppe (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae, Spilosominae). Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie 15: 423–432.
Freina de, J.J., 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.
Hübner, J., 1816-[1826]: Verzeichnis bekannter Schmetterlinge: 431 pp., Augsburg.
Inoue, H., 1988: Three new species and some synonymic notes on the Arctiidae from Japan, Taiwan and Philippines. Tyô to Ga 39 (2): 99–118. Full article: [3].

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 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

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

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.

Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Arctiidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.