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.
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Similiar species:
Polytela florigera - "differs from gloriosae in the basal joints of the palpi and antennae being black (gloriosa - orange); the orange spots on the metathorax often absent; cilia of hindwing black (gloriosae - yellow)" (Hampson, 1892).
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
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| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 3 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Assam | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | |||||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
| Haryana | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Kerala | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | |||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Paschimbanga | |||||||||||||
| Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Sikkim | |||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | |||||||||
| West Bengal | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Total | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 2 |
Polytela gloriosae (Fabricius, 1781) – Lily Moth: Crinum asiaticum, Zephyranthes sp. (Amaryllidaceae), Gloriosa superba (Colchicaceae) (Robinson et al. 2010); Hymenocallis littoralis (Amaryllidaceae) (Soman, 2024).
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Polytela gloriosae (Fabricius, 1781) – Lily Moth. 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-gloriosae, accessed 2025/10/28.