Platyja

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Platyja
Platyja umminia - Borneo, Crocker Range National Park. April 2009
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
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

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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

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References

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