Creatonotos

Creatonotos
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
Synonyms
  • Amphissa Walker, 1855
  • Phissama Moore, [1860]

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.

Description

Palpi short and porrect. Hind tibia with one pair of sours. Fore wings rather narrow. Fore wings 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

Subgenus Phissama Moore, [1860] 1858-1859

References

  1. Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-ii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
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