Deltote bankiana

Description

Deltote bankiana, the silver barred, is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. 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, bankiana rises to 1500 meters.