Species Creatonotos gangis (Linnaeus, 1763)

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• Phalaena gangis Linnaeus, C. 1763. Centuria Insectorum, Quam, Praesidae D.D. Car. von Linne, Proposuit Boas Johansson, Calmariensis. pp. 384–415 in Linnaeus, C. Amoenitates Academicae; seu Dissertations variae, physicae, medicae, botanicae, Antehac seorsim editae, nunc collectae and auctae. Paris. Vol. 6. [410].
• Phalaena interrupta Linnaeus, C. 1767. Systema naturae, per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum caracteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Holmiae [= Stockholm] : L. Salvii Tomus I. Regnum Animale(pars 2) Editio duodecima, reformata [3 vols., 1766–68], pp. 533–1327. [840].
• Bombyx francisca Fabricius, J.C. 1787. Mantissa Insectorum sistens eorum species nuper detectas adiectis characteribus genericis, differentiis specificis, emendationibus, observationibus. Hafniae : Christ. Gottl. Proft. Vol. 2 382 pp. [131, 200].
• Creatonotus continuatus Moore, F. 1877. Descriptions of Ceylon Lepidoptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 20: 339-348 [344].
• Creatonotus gangis pallida Rothschild, L.W. 1914. [Arctiidae, Tiger moths] Arctiinae. pp. 236-263, pls 19-25 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 10. Bombyces and Sphinges of the Indo-Australian Region. 2 vols. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag 909 pp., 100 pls. [253].
• Creatonotus gangis nigrescens Rothschild, L.W. 1914. [Arctiidae, Tiger moths] Arctiinae. pp. 236-263, pls 19-25 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 10. Bombyces and Sphinges of the Indo-Australian Region. 2 vols. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Verlag 909 pp., 100 pls. [253].
• Creatonotos gangis feminatus Strand, E. 1918. Arctiidae: Subfam. Arctiinae. Lepidopterorum Catalogus 22: 1-416 [246].

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

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