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Creatonotos fasciatus

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Species of moth

Creatonotos fasciatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Creatonotos
Species: C. fasciatus
Binomial name
Creatonotos fasciatus
L. Candèze, 1927

Creatonotos fasciatus is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by L. Candèze in 1927. It is found in Cambodia, Laos and China (Hong Kong).

The length of the forewings is about 18.5 mm for males and 19 mm for females.

Subspecies

  • Creatonotos fasciatus fasciatus (Cambodia)
  • Creatonotos fasciatus pljustshi Dubatolov, 2010 (Laos, Hong Kong)

References

  1. Dubatolov, V.V., 2010: Creatonotos fasciatus (Candeze, 1927) (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae), a little known species from an Indochina sibling to C. gangis (Linnaeus, 1763), with a description of a new subspecies from Laos and Hong Kong. Euroasian Entomological Journal 9 (4): 727-730.
Taxon identifiers
Creatonotos fasciatus


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