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
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 | |||||||||||||
Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
Karnataka | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Kerala | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Maharashtra | 4 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
Manipur | |||||||||||||
Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
Mizoram | |||||||||||||
Nagaland | |||||||||||||
Odisha | |||||||||||||
Paschimbanga | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
Pondicherry | |||||||||||||
Punjab | |||||||||||||
Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
Sikkim | |||||||||||||
Tamil Nadu | 1 | ||||||||||||
Tripura | |||||||||||||
Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
Uttarakhand | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
West Bengal | 1 | ||||||||||||
Total | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 13 | 12 | 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 2024. Polytela gloriosae (Fabricius, 1781) – Lily Moth. In Sondhi, S., Y. Sondhi, R.P. Singh, P. Roy and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 3.80. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/polytela-gloriosae, accessed 2024/11/11.