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Arctiidae Moth

Creatonotos gangis

Photo by Juan Manuel
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Field Notes

Description:

Male of C. gangis showin the coremata, scent organs used to spread pheromones.
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Arctiidae
Genus: Creatonotos
Species: C. gangis
(Linnaeus, 1763)

Habitat:

Tropical wood, low land

Notes:

Synonyms

Phalaena gangis Linnaeus, 1763
Creatonotos continuatus Moore, 1877

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Creatonotos gangis

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Comments (65)
DanielePralong
Project Noah followers have probably not escaped the latest social media viral video... Beyond sensationalist titles and fear mongering, learn about the amazing tiger moth Creatonotos gangis from Project Noah ranger, blogger and field guide author Eric Eaton, a.k.a. Bug Eric: https://bugeric.blogspot.ch/2017/10/another-viral-moth-video.html
DanielePralong
Congratulations Juan Manuel, your amazing image of Creatonotos gangis showing coremata has been chosen to illustrate our dayly fact for National Moth Week 2017: What an amazing National Moth Week we have had... we're sad to see it end! Thanks for all your fantastic submissions. If you've been too busy mothing to be able to upload all your photos to the Moth of the World mission please note that our Moth Week patch will be available automatically until August 4th. Tomorrow we'll announce our Spotting of the Week, a moth of course. In honor of this year’s focus on tiger moths, Project Noah ranger, National Moth Week organizer and Cornell University entomology student Jacob Gorneau is bringing us interesting facts about tiger moths (Erebidae: Arctiinae): Plants produce chemicals known as secondary compounds which serve a variety of functions, notably to defend themselves from herbivores. Herbivores such as moths, however, how found ways to avoid the harmful effects of these compounds, often using them for defense. These chemicals can have other effects as well. Male moths have structures known as coremata that use pheromones to communicate with females. In the tiger moth Creatonotos gangis, the development of the coremata is controlled by secondary compounds! You can see the coremata at the end of the abdomen of the moth in this picture! Ref: http://buff.ly/2vWaky8 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/projectnoah/photos/a.10150595289465603.674700.10150120463815603/10159141860840603/?type=3&theater Twitter: https://twitter.com/projectnoah/status/891801036343693312
Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman
WOW!! it was wonderful to watch the video, specially to see a Moth like Juan Manuel's, coremata actually come out in the video.. : ) Thank you, Juan Manuel and AmazonWorkshops.
AmazonWorkshops
check out this video link. at 48 seconds it shows a moth like this unfurling its coremata! http://www.wimp.com/coolnature/
Juan Manuel
Tnx, Leana! Wow! great pics in that community. I liked it!
Leana Lahom-Cristobal
Thank you Juan Manuel for the info. BTW it was also shared at the Philippine Lepidoptera community at http://www.facebook.com/PhilippineLepidoptera
Juan Manuel
Tnx, all of you! Wow, Ashley T, More than 28.000 visits to the pic and more that 2.000 coments, Amazing! Many people asked me how can this moth fly with this. Ok, the answer is it can't. The coremata is a pneumatic system. Apears and dissapear in seconds, it's just a "device" for the short distance. In the long distance the pheromones involved are spread by the females.
Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman
Same here, Congratulations, Juan Manuel. That is an incredible picture of an incredible Moth...I hope it does not try to fly with that...did you say it is called a coremata? do not think it would get very far... it is "huge"!!
Maria dB
What a beauty! Belated congratulations!
AshleyT
Beautiful, Juan! Scroll down on this page, they feature your moth and properly give you credit for it as well :) https://www.facebook.com/IFeakingLoveScience?ref=stream&hc_location=stream
Mona Pirih
Incredible moth !! Thank you for sharing Juan.. :)
Juan Manuel
Thanks to all, boys and girls. I am really overwhelmed by your congratulations and for the patch that has been given to me. I know that this photo has been only a fruit of the luck, and if any of you had been there, were obtained it, probably taking a photo much better than mine. Only I can say to you that I feel lucky to have been there and to have "naturalistic partners" as you. I love you!
TKBotting
What the..... Oddest moth I've ever seen!
rams4d
Amazing, Awesome, Impressive, I had never see that kind of insect. Very interesting. Congratulations, nice picture !!!
RiekoS
Congratulations! Very nice spot.
MarcTe
amazing spotting! congrats on the SOTD
surekha
Congratulations, Juan Manuel!
Leana Lahom-Cristobal
Congratulations Juan Manuel Sánchez on this awesome oozing with machismo moth SOTD! :)
KarenL
Wow, what an amazing moth! Congratulations Juan, you have just earned your first Spotting of the Day! This crazy looking moth uses its elaborate structures to fan pheromones towards his mate during courtship. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153282797085603&set=a.10152383557885603.943728.10150120463815603&type=1 Twitter: https://twitter.com/projectnoah/status/382710500846346241
staccyh
Wow, really great find. I've never seen this before, so thanks for sharing it with us!
LeanneGardner
Wow! That is just incredible. Thanks so much for sharing :)
Carol Snow Milne
WOW! I just am speechless over this incredible moth. Congratulations!
surekha
Great find! Congratulations, Juan!
Namitha
Awesome spotting Juan Manuel! It has got an exceptionally strange alien look. Ammmmazing find!
Juan Manuel
Thank you al of you! I see you are so surprised as me when I found this moth. The first impression is to be in front of an X-File! Tnx Bayucca for your detalled explanations about the coremata. I must did it, but i was really tired and only put some words that may be insuficient to explain the phenomena. We are lucky having you here!

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