Creatonotos
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subtribe: | Spilosomina |
| Genus: |
Creatonotos Hübner, 1819 |
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Phalaena interrupta Linnaeus, 1767 |
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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.
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.
The genus contains the following species:
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