{{Short description|Genus of moths}} {{Automatic taxobox |image=Creatonotos gangis (7171776400).jpg | image_caption =''Creatonotos gangis'' | taxon = Creatonotos | authority = Hübner, 1819 | type_species = ''Phalaena interrupta'' | type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1767 | synonyms = *''Amphissa'' <small>Walker, 1855</small> *''Phissama'' <small>Moore, [1860]</small> }}
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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.
==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."<ref>{{cite book |last=Hampson |first=G. F. |authorlink=George Hampson |date=1894 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180400#page/5/mode/1up |title=The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths |volume=II |publisher=Taylor and Francis |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library |doi=10.5962/bhl.title.100745 |doi-access=free |page=26}}</ref>
==Species== The genus contains the following species:
===''Creatonotos sensu stricto''=== *''Creatonotos gangis'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1763)</small> *''Creatonotos interrupta'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1767)</small> *''Creatonotos leucanioides'' <small>Holland, 1893</small> **''Creatonotos leucanioides albidior'' <small>Wiltshire, 1986</small> *''Creatonotos omanirana'' <small>de Freina, 2007</small> *''Creatonotos fasciatus'' <small>(Candèze, 1927)</small> **''Cretonotos fasciatus pljustshi'' <small>Dubatolov, 2010</small> *''Creatonotos perineti'' <small>Rothschild, 1933</small> *''Creatonotos punctivitta'' <small>(Walker, 1855)</small>
===Subgenus ''Phissama'' Moore, [1860] 1858-1859=== *''Creatonotos kishidai'' <small>Dubatolov & Holloway, 2007</small> *''Creatonotos transiens'' <small>(Walker, 1855)</small> **''Creatonotos transiens albina'' <small>(Daniel, 1971)</small> **''Creatonotos transiens koni'' <small>Miyake, 1909</small> **''Creatonotos transiens sundana'' <small>Nakamura, 1976</small> **''Creatonotos transiens vacillans'' <small>(Walker, 1855)</small> *''Creatonotos wilemani'' <small>Rothschild, 1933</small>
==References== {{Reflist}} * {{aut|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. * {{aut|Freina, J.J. de}}, 2007: ''Creatonotos omanirana'' sp. n. aus dem Oman und dem Iran (Artiidae: Arctiinae). ''Nota Lepidopterologica'' '''30''' (2): 375–386, Dresden. * {{aut|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. * {{aut|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. * {{aut|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. {{Wikispecies}} *{{cite journal |last1=Pitkin |first1=Brian |last2=Jenkins |first2=Paul |name-list-style=amp |url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusList3.dsml?&FAMILY=Arctiidae&sort=GENUS |title=Search results Family: Arctiidae |website=Butterflies and Moths of the World |date=2023 |publisher=Natural History Museum, London|doi=10.5519/s93616qw }}
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Category:Spilosomina Category:Moth genera Category:Taxa named by Jacob Hübner
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