Taxonomic Information
Deltote Reichenbach, 1817 species known from India (Joshi et al, 2025).
Deltote basipleta (Warren, 1913). India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasia Hills).
Deltote cidarioides (Moore, 1882). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling).
Deltote crotopha (Swinhoe, 1905). India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasia Hills).
Deltote fuscicilia (Hampson, 1891). India: S. India (TL: Nilgiris).
Deltote glaucopis (Hampson, 1894). India: Sikkim (TL).
Deltote holophaea (Hampson, 1910). India: Nagaland (TL: Nagas).
Deltote melanostigma (Hampson, 1894). India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasis).
Deltote obliqua (Moore, 1882). India: Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Nagaland; Bhutan; Myanmar; Sri Lanka.
Deltote picta (Hampson, 1896). India: Meghalaya (TL: Khasis).
Deltote semiannulata (Warren, 1913). India: Nagaland (TL).
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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- Bankia obliqua Moore, 1882; Description of new Indian Lepidopterous Insects from the Collection of the late Mr. W.S. Atkinson. Pg. 143; TL: Dharmsala; Kaschmir; Changra. Text at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/26805#page/161/mode/1up.
- Hampson, G. F. 1894. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Moths, Vol. 2. Taylor & Francis, London. Arctiidae, Agrostidae, Noctuidae 609 p - 325 figs.Pg. 307, # 2008 as Hyela obliqua. Mentions a Burmese form that has a brown basal area.
- Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2013. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuoidea Part 2: Addendum to Vol. 3, Part 1, Families Erebidae, Nolidae, Euteliidae, Noctuidae and Checklist. Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok. 625 pp. + 55 pls. Pl. 35/38.
- Joshi, R., Raha, A., Bandyopadhyay, U., Bhattacharyya, K. and Singh, N., 2025. A catalogue of Noctuidae Latreille, 1809 (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) from India. Zootaxa, 5669(1), pp.1-225.
Lepindex lists as Eustrotia obliqua Moore, 1882.
Page citation
Anonymous 2026. Deltote obliqua (Moore, 1882) – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.21. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/deltote-obliqua, accessed 2026/06/04.