Platyja umminia

Platyja umminia is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Pieter Cramer in 1780. 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]

Platyja umminia
Scientific classification
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

Description

Its wingspan is about 48–60 mm. Male has bipectinate antennae with short branches. Mid and hindleg with tufts of very long hair from the femur-tibial joint. Body olivaceous red-brown. Forewings 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. Hindwings 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. Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Platyja umminia Cramer". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  2. Herbison-Evans, Don & Crossley, Stella (3 March 2011). "Platyja umminia (Cramer, 1780)". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  3. Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  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. Food and Agricultural Organization. Retrieved 16 August 2016.


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