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title: "Unique creatonotos gangis"  
description: "A brief explanation about the creatonotos gangis and its facts"  
author: "Anjita D."  
published: 2023-10-21  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/2966/unique-creatonotos-gangis  
category: "animals"  
tags: ["creatonotos gangis", "moth", "caterpillars", "facts", "general knowledge"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Unique creatonotos gangis

![Unique creatonotos gangis](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/ee2555c4-2609-4d36-a872-8b79858e8783/images/523f5d08-137d-4d83-a3f8-d6ad47bf8bff.jpeg) ![Unique creatonotos gangis](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/ee2555c4-2609-4d36-a872-8b79858e8783/images/8264d61b-2f28-4784-aae4-c4d1b42a61cc.jpeg) Creatonotos gangis, often known as the hairy pencil moth, is a species of arctiine moth found in South-east Asia and Australia. ![Unique creatonotos gangis](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/ee2555c4-2609-4d36-a872-8b79858e8783/images/41718871-dbde-4581-8784-21fad9e6cec9.jpeg) It is a medium-sized moth with a 4 cm wingspan, white hindwings and brown forewings, each with a dark streak, and a red or yellow abdomen. ![Unique creatonotos gangis](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/ee2555c4-2609-4d36-a872-8b79858e8783/images/aeeb57c0-9cde-47b3-b40e-31db6b4465aa.jpeg) Males have distinctive four grey-colored coremata, specialized scent organs used to attract mates, which can extend beyond the abdomen when inflated. ![Unique creatonotos gangis](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/ee2555c4-2609-4d36-a872-8b79858e8783/images/5be87bbe-2e96-46a7-a7d5-b6ecf5afdca7.jpeg) Their brown, hairy, and yellow-striped moths feed on plants that produce pyrrolizidine alkaloids, which they use to ward off predators and parasites. ![Unique creatonotos gangis](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/ee2555c4-2609-4d36-a872-8b79858e8783/images/caaafca1-146e-41a0-b49a-2221c96df368.jpeg) When the caterpillars reach maturity, they pupate in a silken cocoon. The adults will emerge from the cocoons after a few weeks.

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