''Creatonotos kishidai'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

of the family

Erebidae The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwings ('' Catocala'') ...

. It was described by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov and Jeremy Daniel Holloway in 2007. It is found on

Sulawesi Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Ar ...

. The

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is 41–46 mm for males and 43–49 mm for females. The wings of the males are dark grey, the forewing with a lighter costal margin and veins on the external part of the wing. The female forewings are light grey with lighter veins in the external part of the wing., 2007
"A new species of the ''Creatonotos transiens''-group (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) from Sulawesi, Indonesia"
''Bonner zoologische Beiträge''. 55 (2): 113-121.

References

Spilosomina Moths described in 2007 Moths of Indonesia Moths of Asia {{Spilosomina-stub