Teleclita grisea (Swinhoe, 1892) -

Taxonomic Information

Teleclita Turner, 1903 species known from India. 
Teleclita centristicta (Hampson, 1897). India: West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, S India; Myanmar; Nepal; Sri Lanka. 
Teleclita grisea (Swinhoe, 1892). India: N. India, NE India, S. India. 
Teleclita strigata (Moore, 1879). India: Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Karnataka, Kerala.

Photo Gallery and Species Biology

Teleclita grisea -


Teleclita grisea: The hitherto little known and often misidentified species, T. grisea, resemble externally much to some forms of Teleclita strigata. It is distinguished by the blackish margin of the hindwings in both sexes. 
Teleclita strigata: The forewings are often mixed somewhat golden. There is a prominent black streak on the apex of the forewings. The hindwings are white without fuscous margin as in grisea.
 

StateJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecNo date
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
Bihar
Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Lakshadweep
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Paschimbanga
Pondicherry
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand1
West Bengal
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  1. Pheosia grisea Swinhoe, 1892. Cat. Heterocera Mus. Oxon. 
  2. Pheosia grisea; Hampson, G. F. [1893]. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 1. Taylor & Francis, London. Pp. xxiii + 527. Saturniidae to Hypsidae 527 p - 333 fig.pg. 161, # 286. 
  3. Schintlmeister, A., & A. Pinratana. 2007. Moths of Thailand,Volume 5. Notodontidae. Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok. 320 pp. + 45 pls. Pg. 115, Pl. 16/119. 
  4. Kishida, Y. (Ed.). 2020. Moths of Laos, Part 1, TINEA Vol. 25, (Supplement 2), pp. 1-224, 94 pls.Pl. 76/13. 
  5. http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=508770
  6. http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/90_NOCTUOIDEA/01_NOTODONTIDAE/05_Dicranurinae/33_Teleclita/Teleclita_grisea/Teleclita_grisea.htm

Page citation

Anonymous 2024. Teleclita grisea (Swinhoe, 1892) – . In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.73. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/Teleclita-grisea, accessed 2024/04/28.