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Creatonotos
Sign in to saveCreatonotos 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.
Species
Clouded Tiger Moth
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilyErebidae
Creatonotos est un genre de papillons tigres de la famille des Erebidae. Les papillons du genre se trouvent dans les régions afrotropicales, en Asie du Sud et de l'Est, dans le Sundaland et en Australie.
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 6
- Family
- Arctiidae
- Collections
- UMNH, MZLU
- Recorded in
- Philippines, Cameroon, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Senegal
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Spilosomina
- Image
- Creatonotos gangis (7171776400).jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Description
- Species
- ''Creatonotos sensu stricto''
- Subgenus ''Phissama'' Moore, [1860] 1858-1859
- References
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."
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