Platyja umminia
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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]
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]
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Adults and caterpillars are known to feed on soursop and other Annona species.[4][5]
References
- ^ Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Platyja umminia Cramer". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
- ^ Herbison-Evans, Don; Crossley, Stella (3 March 2011). "Platyja umminia (Cramer, 1780)". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|last-author-amp=ignored (|name-list-style=suggested) (help) - ^ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ "Platyja umminia reared from caterpillar feeding on soursop". Insects of Guam. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
- ^ "Fruit piercing moths in Micronesia and their natural enemies". AGRIS. Food and Agricultural Organization. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
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