Platyja umminia

Platyja umminia
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Platyja
Species: P. umminia
Binomial name
Platyja umminia
(Cramer, [1780])
Synonyms
  • Phalaena umminia Cramer, [1780]
  • Sympis subunita Guenée, 1852
  • Cotuza drepanoides Walker, 1858
  • Ginaea removens Walker, 1858
  • Ophisma trajecta Walker, 1869
  • Hulodes falcata Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874

Platyja umminia is a species of moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from the Indo-Australian tropics of China, Japan, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar to New Guinea and Queensland. It is also present on Guam. Adults have been recorded piercing fruit in Thailand and Guam.[1][2]

Description

Wingspan about 48-60mm. Male has bipectinate antennae with short branches. Mid and hind leg with tufts of very long hair from the femur-tibial joint. Body olivaceous red-brown. Fore wings with a few grey specks. An antemedial obliquely waved dark line present. Orbicular small and dark. Reniform with dark outline. There is a postmedial crenulate line, highly excurved beyond the cell and then bent inwards to below middle of cell above two dark-edged marks, which in the female are filled in with ochreous, chestnut or white and with some chestnut rings or spots. A dark streak from apex, with some grey below it. Hind wings with crenulate postmedial line and traces of a sub-marginal line. Cilia tipped with white on both wings. Ventral sides with lines on discocellulars and a crenulate postmedial line with a white specks series on it.[3]

Adults and caterpillars are known to feed on soursop and other Annona species.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ "Platyja umminia Cramer". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  2. ↑ "Distribution of Platyja umminia". Butterfly House. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  3. ↑ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-ii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
  4. ↑ "Platyja umminia reared from caterpillar feeding on soursop". Insects of Guam. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  5. ↑ "Fruit piercing moths in Micronesia and their natural enemies". agris.fao.org. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
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