Platyja ciacula Swinhoe, 1893 -

Taxonomic Information

Platyja Hübner, [1823] species known from India.
Platyja ciacula Swinhoe, 1893. India: NE Himalaya. 
Platyja minutipuncta Swinhoe, 1901. India: NE Himalaya. 
Platyja umminia (Cramer, [1780]). Indo-Australian tropics.
Platyja umbrina (Doubleday, 1842). India: NE Himalaya. 
Platyja exviola Hampson, 1891. S. India (TL: Nilgiris). 
Platyja torsilinea (Guenée, 1852). India: NE Himalaya.  Andaman Is. 

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

Platyja ciacula -


Similar species: Platyja exviola Hampson, 1891. S. India (TL: Nilgiris).

StateJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNo date
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh1
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir UT
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Ladakh UT
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya2
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
Total12
  1. Platyja ciacula Swinhoe, 1893, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 12:264.
  2. Hampson, G. F. 1894. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 2. Taylor & Francis, London. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae 609 p - 325 figs.pg. 540, # 2609. 
  3. Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2013. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuoidea Part 2: Addendum to Vol. 3, Part 1, Families Erebidae, Nolidae, Euteliidae, Noctuidae and Checklist. Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok. 625 pp. + 55 pls. pg. 129, pl. 17/7. 
  4. Kishida, Y. (Ed.). 2020. Moths of Laos, Part 1, TINEA Vol. 25, (Supplement 2), pp. 1-224, 94 pls.pg. 170, pl. 86/6. 
  5. https://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-15-16/miscellaneous_i/miscellaneousi_4_4.php

iNaturalist has this as Platyja torsilinea ssp. ciacula. I cannot find any references to support this treatment. 
 

Page citation

Anonymous 2025. Platyja ciacula Swinhoe, 1893 – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.9. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://mothsofindia.org/platyja-ciacula, accessed 2025/04/23.