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Platyja
umminia Cramer
Phalaena
umminia Cramer, [1780] 1782, Uitlandsche Kapellen,
3: 137.
Sympis
subunita Guenée, 1852, Hist. Nat. Insectes, Spec. gén. Lépid.
7:
344.
Cotuza
drepanoides Walker,
1858, List
Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 15: 1552.
Ginaea
removens Walker,
1858, List
Specimens lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus., 15: 1638.
Ophisma
trajecta Walker,
1869, Characters
undescribed Lepid. Heterocera p. 108.
Hulodes
falcata Felder, 1874, Reise öst. Fregatte Novara,
Lep. Het.: pl. 115, f. 8.
Diagnosis.
This is a medium brown species with strongly falcate forewings. The fasciation
is finely darker, the postmedial looped in the manner typical of this and the
next genus. In about half of specimens seen the apical parts of the loop
encloses two blotches of creamy white or dull red that have darker rings within
them. The legs of the male bear paler, more ochreous hair pencils.
Geographical
range. Indo-Australian tropics to New Guinea and Queensland; also on
Guam (see below).
Habitat
preference. The species is infrequent in forests from the lowlands to
1790m.
Biology.
The adults have been recorded as piercing fruit in Thailand (Bänziger, 1982;
Kuroko & Lewvanich, 1993) and Guam (Schreiner, 1991). The record from Annona muricata (Annonaceae)
from Yunus & Ho (1980) in Robinson et al. (2001)
may also be of this nature.
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