Creatonotos

Creatonotos
Creatonotos
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Arctiidae
Tribe: Spilosomini
Genus: Creatonotos
Hübner, 1819
Type species
Phalaena interrupta
Linnaeus, 1767
Synonyms
  • Amphissa Walker, 1855
  • Phissama Moore, [1860]

Creatonotos is a genus of moths in the family Arctiidae from Afrotropics, South & East Asia, Sundaland and Australia, containing the following species:

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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

Creatonotos sensu lato species that were transferred into another genera:

  • Creatonotos affinis
  • Creatonotos arabica
  • Creatonotos aula
  • Creatonotos aurantiaca
  • Creatonotos borealis
  • Creatonotos burgeoni
  • Creatonotos camula
  • Creatonotos cinerascens
  • Creatonotos confluens
  • Creatonotos costalis
  • Creatonotos defasciata
  • Creatonotos dulla
  • Creatonotos feminatus
  • Creatonotos flavidus
  • Creatonotos flavoabdominalis
  • Creatonotos fulvomarginalis
  • Creatonotos gracilis
  • Creatonotos marginalis
  • Creatonotos neurophaea
  • Creatonotos orientalis
  • Creatonotos pallidior
  • Creatonotos pedunculata
  • Creatonotos ramivitta
  • Creatonotos sudanicus

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.