Creatonotos gangis (Linnaeus, 1763)

Bolotov, Ivan N., Kondakov, Alexander V. & Spitsyn, Vitaly M., 2018, A review of tiger moths (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Arctiini) from Flores Island, Lesser Sunda Archipelago, with description of a new species and new subspecies, Ecologica Montenegrina 16, pp. 1-15 : 10

Creatonotos gangis (Linnaeus, 1763)

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Material examined. INDONESIA, Lesser Sundas, East Nusa Tenggara, Flores Island: Sano Ngoang Lake, camp site, secondary mountain forest with old nutmeg trees on a hill slope , 8º42’33.50”S, 119 º59’51”E, 21- 22 January 2015, 1♂, 1♀, Bolotov leg. ( RMBH, voucher nos. SPH0594 and SPH0595 ); Labuan Bajo, garden and native grassland on the seacoast , 8º31’21”S, 119º52’16”E, 13-20 January 2015, 2♀, Bolotov leg. ( RMBH, voucher nos. SPH0592 and SPH0593 ); Labuan Bajo, hotel garden , 1 May 2011, 1♂, 1♀, Bolotov leg. ( RMBH, voucher nos. SPH0590 and SPH0591 ) .

Distribution: Widespread from Middle East ( Oman, the United Arab Emirates and Iran), India and China to Australia ( Table 1 ).

DNA barcoding: Two sequenced specimens from Flores share two COI haplotypes (GenBank acc. nos. KY683800 and KY683801 ) with the mean p -distance 0.2%. Their nearest neighbors were originated from South Asia ( India, Pakistan and Nepal) and the Middle East ( Oman) with the minimum p -distance of 1.6% ( Table 2 ).

Remarks: First record from Flores.

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Figure 2. Examples of Arctiini species from Flores Island, Lesser Sundas, Indonesia: A) Euchromia horsfieldi (Moore, 1859), ♀ (Sph0723); B) Utetheisa pulchelloides Hampson, 1907, ♀ (RMBH, voucher no. Sph0717); C) Amerila astreus (Drury, 1773), ♀ (RMBH, voucher no. Sph0694); D) A. astreus, ♂ (RMBH, voucher no. Sph0693); E) Nyctemera baulus (Boisduval, 1832), ♂ (RMBH, voucher no. Sph0720); F) N. baulus, ♀ (RMBH, voucher no. Sph0721); G) Creatonotos gangis (Linnaeus, 1763), ♂ (RMBH, voucher no. Sph0595); H) Lemyra maculifascia (Walker, 1855), ♂ (RMBH, voucher no. Sph0722). Scale bar: 10 mm. Photos: Vitaly M. Spitsyn.