Taxonomic Information
Polyptychus Hübner, [1819] species known from India.
Polyptychus trilineatus Moore, 1888. India: Punjab, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, S. India; Sri Lanka; Bhutan.
Polyptychus dentatus ([Cramer, 1777]). India: S. India, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Maharshtra, Sikkim, West Bengal; Sri Lanka; Myanmar.
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| Total | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
Polyptychus trilineatus Moore, 1888 – Common Crenulate Hawkmoth: Cordia myxa, Cordia dichotoma, Cordia sinensis, Ehretia laevis (Boraginaceae), Terminalia chebula (Combretaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010).
- , pg 41, # 42, pl 17 ssp. undatus.
- Pittaway, A.R. & I.J. Kitching. Sphingidae of the Eastern Palaearctic. ssp. trilineatus [accesed June 2015]
- Sravani, V. L. P. 2020. Taxonomic studies on hawk moths belonging to the family Sphingidae (Lepidoptera), pp. 1-165. Thesis submitted to ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi.
- Melichar, T., Haxaire, J. & H.B. Manjunatha. 2021. A revision of the Asiatic species of the Polyptychus trilineatus group (Moore, 1888) (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). The European Entomologist, Vol. 13, no. 1, 54 pp.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Polyptychus trilineatus Moore, 1888 – Common Crenulate Hawkmoth. 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/index.php/polyptychus-trilineatus, accessed 2025/11/09.