Creatonotos gangis

Adults have white hindwings and brown forewings, each with a dark streak, and a wingspan of 4 cm (1.6 in).

The caterpillars are brown hairy animals with a yellow stripe along the back, with a polyphagous diet,[1] known as a minor pest which feeds on groundnuts, rice, ragi, sorghum, Pennisetum americanum, coffee, sweet potato, and lucerne crops.

Hind wing pale or dark fuscous; some specimens with a sub-marginal series of black spots.

Larva black, sparsely clothes with long hairs; head marked with white; a yellow dorsal line with a series of orange spots on it; prolegs pale.Creatonotos gangis lives in South East Asia and parts of Australia.

[7] Its Asian distribution includes eastern Indonesia, India, Iran, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Thailand and New Guinea.

An adult male Creatonotos gangis moth with its four coremata inflated, resembling odd tentacles or worms emerging from the end of the abdomen, covered with long hairs. In this individual, each one of its coremata is about half to two-thirds the length of the moth's abdomen. The moth's wings are spread, showing its bright red abdomen with black spots running down the center.
An adult male Creatonotos gangis moth with its coremata inflated. This male has relatively short coremata.