Subspecies in India
Platyja torsilinea torsilinea (Guenée, 1852). India: NE Himalaya.
Platyja torsilinea ciacula Swinhoe, 1893. India: Andaman & Nicobar Is.
Taxonomic Information
Platyja Hübner, [1823] species known from India.
Platyja acerces (Prout, 1928). India: Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram.
Platyja exviola Hampson, 1891. S. India (TL: Nilgiris).
Platyja minutipuncta Swinhoe, 1901. India: NE Himalaya.
Platyja umminia (Cramer, [1780]). Indo-Australian tropics.
Platyja umbrina (Doubleday, 1842). India: NE Himalaya.
Platyja torsilinea (Guenée, 1852). India: NE Himalaya, Andaman Is.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| Total | 1 | 2 |
- Ophisma torsilinea Guenée, 1852. Species général des Lépidoptères, Noctuélites 3: 240. Locus typicus: Inde centrale [recte: Silhet]. Holotypus: ♀, by monotypy, in NHMUK (via C. Oberthür collection).
- Zilli, A., de Vos, R. & E. D. Edwards, 2021. The torsilinea species group (subgenus Mocrendes Nye, 1975) of the genus Platyja Hübner, [1823] (Lepidoptera: Erebidae), with descriptions of four new species in Telnov, Barclay & Pauwels, Biodiv., Biogeogr. & Nat. Conserv. Wallacea & New Guinea 4 : 413-430.
Zilli et al (2021) treat ciacula as a subspecies of P. torsilinea.
Note: However, when specimens from the Andaman Islands, type locality for ciacula, are considered (Figs 6 & 29), the females, and to a lesser extent also the males, show a particular pattern feature which is more reminiscent of exviola than typical torsilinea, namely the inner line bordering the preapical patch of forewings that more definitely curves upwards to reach the costa less obliquely than in typical torsilinea. The outer line bordering the patch is also feebly but consistently (Zilli et al 2021).
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Platyja torsilinea (Guenée, 1852) – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.1. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/platyja-torsilinea, accessed 2026/01/31.