Creatonotos gangis (Linnaeus, 1763)

Fig. 2G

Material examined. INDONESIA, Lesser Sundas, East Nusa Tenggara, Flores Island: Sano Ngoang Lake, camp site, secondary mountain forest with old nutmeg trees on a hill slope, 8º42’33.50”S, 119 º59’51”E, 21- 22 January 2015, 1♂, 1♀, Bolotov leg. (RMBH, voucher nos. SPH0594 and SPH0595); Labuan Bajo, garden and native grassland on the seacoast, 8º31’21”S, 119º52’16”E, 13-20 January 2015, 2♀, Bolotov leg. (RMBH, voucher nos. SPH0592 and SPH0593); Labuan Bajo, hotel garden, 1 May 2011, 1♂, 1♀, Bolotov leg. (RMBH, voucher nos. SPH0590 and SPH0591) .

Distribution: Widespread from Middle East (Oman, the United Arab Emirates and Iran), India and China to Australia (Table 1).

DNA barcoding: Two sequenced specimens from Flores share two COI haplotypes (GenBank acc. nos. KY683800 and KY683801) with the mean p -distance 0.2%. Their nearest neighbors were originated from South Asia (India, Pakistan and Nepal) and the Middle East (Oman) with the minimum p -distance of 1.6% (Table 2).

Remarks: First record from Flores.