Platyja umminia
Species of moth
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Platyja umminia is a species of moth in 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]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Platyja |
| Species: | P. umminia |
| Binomial name | |
| Platyja umminia (Cramer, [1780]) | |
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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]
