Taxonomic Information
Platyja Hübner, [1823] species known from India.
Platyja acerces (Prout, 1928). India: Arunachal Pradesh.
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: Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya.
Platyja torsilinea (Guenée, 1852). India: NE Himalaya: Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Andaman Is.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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| Total | 1 | 1 |
- Iontha acerces Prout, 1928, Bull. Hill Mus. Witley, 2: 261.
- Iontha acerces Prout; Holloway, 1976: 34, partim (fig 209).
- Platyja crenulata Holloway, 1976: 34.
- Zilli, A. 2001. On the identify of Iontha acerces A. E. Prout (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), with description of a new species of Iontha Doubleday from Borneo Trans. lepid. Soc. Japan 52 (2) : 101-108.
- Kirti, J.S., Singh, N. and Singh, H., 2017. Eight new records of family Erebidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) from India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 9(7), pp.10480-10486.
- https://www.mothsofborneo.com/species/platyja-acerces
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/709406-Platyja-acerces
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Platyja acerces (Prout, 1928) – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.11. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/platyja-acerces, accessed 2026/02/06.