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.