LECTOTYPE ♂ «India (S): North Kanara, Karwar [18.viii.1923] (T.R. Bell)» [NHMUK]; implicitly designated by Jordan, 1938, Novit. zool. 41: legend to plates III & IV.
Taxonomic Notes:
Proposed as a subspecies of Polyptychus trilineatus. Raised to species status by Melichar et al., 2018, A field guide to hawkmoths of the state of Karnataka, India: 39.
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith
