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Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea

Family

Noctuidae

Subfamily

Eustrotiinae

Tribe/Subtribe

Genus

Deltote Reichenbach , 1817

Type Species

Phalaena argentula  Hübner, 1787

= Lithacodia Hübner, [1818]: 18 (TS: Lithacodia bellicula Hübner, 1818: 18, figs 85, 86)
= Bankia Guenée, 1852: 231 (TS: Phalaena argentula Hübner, [1787], by original designation, but cited as B. argentula Esper ’, an incorrect authorship. Bankia Guenée is a junior homonym of Bankia Gray, 1842: 76 (Mollusca). The objective replacement name is Deltote)
= Erotylae Ochsenheimer, 1816: 91 (Published as a junior synonym of Erastria Ochsenheimer, 1816, and not subsequently treated as an available name under the Code, Article ii (d))
= Erastria Ochsenheimer, 1816: 92 (TS: Phalaena uncula Clerck, 1759 [1764], by subsequent designation by Samouelle (1819): 252, but cited as unca, a name originally included in the genus, and also an unjustified emendation. Erastria Ochsenheimer is a junior homonym of Erastria Hübner, [1813]: pl. [203] (Geometridae). The objective replacement name is Eustrotia Hübner)
= Eustrotia Hübner, [1821]: 253 (TS: Phalaena uncula Clerck, 1759 [1764]: pl. 3, fig. 7 (but included by Hübner as ‘E. unca Schiff.’)
= Hemeroptena Sodoffsky, 1837: 89 (Proposed as the objective replacement name for Erastria Ochsenheimer, 1816, which Sodoffsky considered to be inappropriate. The name Hemeroptena Sodoffsky is however unnecessary as there is an earlier objective replacement name, Eustrotia Hübner, [1821])
= Hydrelia Guenée, 1841: 227 (TS: Phalaena uncula Clerck, 1759 [1764], but included by Guenée as ‘unca Esp.’, an incorrect authorship), by subsequent designation by Guenée, in Boisduval & Guenée, 1852: 235, but cited as ‘unca Lin., an incorrect authorship. Hydrelia Guenée is a junior homonym of Hydrelia Hübner, [1825] 1816: 322 (Geometridae). The objective replacement name is Eustrotia)
= Hyela Stephens, 1850: 149 (TS: Phalaena uncula Clerck, 1759 [1764], but included by Stephens as P. uncana Linnaeus; by subsequent designation by Moore (1884): 56, but cited as tinea. Hyela is a junior objective synonym of Eustrotia Hübner)
= Motama Moore, 1882: 110 (TS: Motama cidarioides Moore, 1882: no, pl. 4, fig. 9)
= Anchiroe Saalmüller, 1891: 350 (TS: Anchiroe flavofimbria Saalmüller, 1891: 350, pl. 13, fig. 231)
= Anchirrhoe Bertkau, 1892: 188 (An unjustified emendation of Anchiroe Saalmüller, 1891) Anchirrhoe was proposed as Anchir[rh)oe’, an incorrect original spelling which under the Code, Article 32(c) (1) corrected by the deletion of parentheses and diaeresis by Nye (1975))
= Eutrostia; Chretien (1931): 261 (An incorrect subsequent spelling)
= Motana; Neave (1940): 222 (An incorrect subsequent spelling)

Species/Subspecies

Deltote basipleta Warren, 1913 (Eustrotia)

Type Locality

Khasia Hills [Meghalaya, India]

Ladakh Jammu & Kashmir Uttarakhand Sikkim Punjab Bihar WestBengal Odisha Maharashtra Karnataka Goa Andhra Pradesh Tamil Nadu Kerala Arunachal Pradesh Assam Meghalaya Tripura Manipur Mizoram Rajasthan Gujarat Jharkhand Chhattisgarh Uttar Pradesh Madhya Pradesh Nagaland Haryana Delhi Himachal Pradesh Telengana Andaman & Nikobar Island Lakshadweep

Distribution

States/Union Territories

Meghalaya

Bio Geographic Zones/Zones

North East

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