No subspecies are listed under this species. This species was earlier included under Heteropsis (Kodandaramaiah et al. 2010), but has now been moved under the genus Telinga (Aduse-Poku et al. 2016).
Kodandaramaiah, U., D. C. Lees, C. J. Müller, E. Torres, K. P. Karanth and N. Wahlberg. 2010. Phylogenetics and biogeography of a spectacular Old World radiation of butterflies: the subtribe Mycalesina (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrini). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 10:172.
Anonymous. 2019. Telinga adolphei Guérin, 1843 – Red-eye Bushbrown. Kunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 2.61. Indian Foundation for Butterflies.