Similar spp (vide Ranjan et al)
T. erythrina is very similar to T. amica but is distinct in the forewing with a rusty brown postmedial area and basal area tinged with fuscous, whereas in T. amica the forewing basal area is completely fuscous and the marginal area is olivaceous fuscous. 

Furthermore, T. erythrina is distinct from T. nubilosa by the labial palpi of male reaching up to the vertex of head, the forewing with a medial whitish area tinged with fuscous, the hindwing with a basal and medial area having whitish suffusion, whereas in T. nubilosa the labial palpi of male reach up and posteriad to the prothorax, the forewing medial area is tinged olive, the hindwing has a suffusion of more fuscous scales.

Teliphasa dodaki sp. nov. is further distinct from the other two similar species T. amica and T. erythrina by the enlarged labial palpi reaching up and backwards to prothorax (whereas in both other species the labial palpi only reach up to the frons), the yellowish forewing ground colour and the hindwing with traces of postmedial line (whereas forewing ground colour is fuscous in the other two species except for the medial area of forewing and basal area of hindwing in T. amica and the forewing with rusty brown scales and an absent postmedial line in the hindwing of T. erythrina.