Taxonomic Information
Polytela Guenée, 1852 species known from India.
Polytela chrysospila Walker, 1865. Myanmar, Indonesia.
Polytela cliens (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874). India: Haryana, New Delhi.
Polytela florigera Guenée, 1852. India: Tamil Nadu (Chennai [Madras]), Karnataka (Bengaluru), "Canara".
Polytela gloriosae (Fabricius, 1775). Indian subcontinent.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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Polytela cliens (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874): Ischaemum afrum (Poaceae), Pancratium tortuosum (Amaryllidaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- OD: Euphasia ? cliens Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874. Reise Fregatte Novara, Bd 2 (Abth. 2) (4): pl. 108, f. 48. Plate at https://archive.org/details/umdieerdeindenja03akad/page/n268/mode/1up?view=theater
- Glottula orientalis Hampson, 1894. Fauna Br. India (Moths) 2: 168; TL: Nilgiris. Text at https://archive.org/details/moths02hamp/page/168/mode/1up?view=theater
- Polytela cliens tanit Rungs, 1972; Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (3) 46: 676; TL: Mauritania, Coppolani, north of Nouak Cholt. Text at https://archive.org/details/bulletindumuseu46musea/page/676/mode/1up?view=theater
- Komal, J., Shashank, P.R., Sondhi, S., Madan S., Sondhi, Y., Meshram, N.M., Anooj, S.S. 2021. Moths (Insecta: Lepidoptera) of Delhi, India: An illustrated checklist based on museum specimens and surveys. Biodiversity Data Journal 9: e73997. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e73997. Pl. 23f.
- http://www.pyrgus.de/Polytela_cliens_en.html
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Polytela cliens (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874) – . 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/polytela-cliens, accessed 2025/10/28.