Deltote bankiana

Deltote bankiana
Deltote bankiana Moscow Oblast
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Deltote
Species:
D. bankiana
Binomial name
Deltote bankiana
(Fabricius, 1775)

Deltote bankiana, the silver barred, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775. It is found in the Palearctic.

The range of the species stretches from the Iberian Peninsula and France in the west to Japan and Korea in the east. However, the occurrences are often only isolated. In England, it is found in Cambridgeshire and Kent. Elsewhere in England the species is a regular immigrant. In Ireland it is resident in peat bogs in County Cork and County Kerry. in the north, the range is from South Sweden. In the south, it is absent from Greece. In the Alps, D. bankiana rises to 1500 meters.