Dependent Polytela (Polytela)

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Photo by Harsha Singh

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Field Notes

Description:

10 cm approx. Pink colored wings with red bean like spots outlined black. Yellow spots on black head and stripes on legs and wing margins towards the tail.

Habitat:

Lower Himalayas.

Notes:

Found this moth sitting on a refractory in the morning. It has not moved from there till now.

Species ID Suggestions

Eurasian Lily Moth

Polytela cliens

Reference Link

Ashish

+ vote

Comments (22)

Ashish

Himalayan lower ranges are geographically connected upto Turkey.... Many Eurasian species find from Portugal to China- Korea and Japan.

Harsha Singh

cliens is reported in Israel, Jordan and Southern Iran. No reference from India as bayucca already quoted. Does not really match Himalayan region.

Harsha Singh

Thanks. Can you ID this? No one could find a reference of this species found in India.

Ashish

Lovely Lily Moth

Harsha Singh

You are right bayucca. I have found no reference of this moth as found in India. But the suggestion looked exactly the same.

bayucca

I would agree with Polytela sp., but I am not sure and have some doubts if you would find Cliens in the Indian Himalaya. It is a typical subsaharian species with some reports on the Canary Islands. Other sources report it from Israel, Jordan and Southern Iran. From the climate aera it does not really match your mountainous region. http://www.afromoths.net/species/show/33229

Harsha Singh

Ok. I will. :)

Jacob Gorneau

I see I made a bit of a typo... :)

Jacob Gorneau

Harsha, the mission was extended during Moth Week, and now is a global mission.

Harsha Singh

This moth was spotted in India. Your mission accepts spottings only from Americas. No?

Harsha Singh

Its alright. I didn't have the common name. :) It was pink enough! :)

Jacob Gorneau

Could you consider adding this to my Moths mission, Moths of the Americas? http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8841449 Thanks!