Platyja

Platyja
	Platyja umminia - Borneo, Crocker Range National Park. April 2009
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Erebinae
Genus:	Platyja; Hübner, [1823]
Synonyms
	Cotuza Walker, 1858; Ginaea Walker, 1858; Cremnodes Felder, 1874; Yerongponga Lucas, 1901; Mocrendes Nye, 1975;

Platyja is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae erected by Jacob Hübner in 1823.[1][2][3]

Description

Palpi with second joint broad, quadrately scaled and reaching vertex of head, and short, blunt and naked third joint. Thorax and abdomen smooth, where abdomen clothed with long coarse hair dorsally. Tibia and hind tarsi very hairy in male. Forewings with highly arched costa towards apex, which is produced and acute. The outer margin obliquely curved. Hindwings with short cell and truncate anal angle.[4]

Species

Platyja acerces Prout, 1928
Platyja argenteopunctata Bethune-Baker, 1906
Platyja ciacula Swinhoe, 1893 Andaman Islands
Platyja cyanocraspis Hampson, 1922
Platyja cyanopasta (Turner, 1908) Australia
Platyja exequialis (T. P. Lucas, 1901) Australia
Platyja exviola Hampson, 1891
Platyja flavimacula Semper, 1901
Platyja griseomaculata Snellen, 1880
Platyja lemur Felder, 1874
Platyja minutipuncta Swinhoe, 1901
Platyja phaenophoenica Hampson, 1905
Platyja porphyria Turner, 1904
Platyja retrahens Prout, 1921
Platyja rufiscripta Swinhoe, 1904 Borneo
Platyja silvani Zilli, 2001
Platyja sumatrana Felder, 1874
Platyja torsilinea Guenée, 1852
Platyja umbrina (Doubleday, 1842)
Platyja umminia (Cramer, [1780]) Java

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References

Savela, Markku (July 6, 2019). "Platyja Hübner, [1823]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 1, 2020.
Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Platyja". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved June 1, 2020.
Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Platyja Hübner, 1823". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved June 1, 2020.
Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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[1] Savela, Markku (July 6, 2019). "Platyja Hübner, [1823]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 1, 2020.

[2] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Platyja". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved June 1, 2020.

[3] Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Platyja Hübner, 1823". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved June 1, 2020.

[4] Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.