About Deltote uncula (Clerck, 1759)
Deltote uncula (Clerck, 1759) has a wingspan of 20–22 mm, with short, broad wings. Its forewings are olive brown, darker across the disc; a broad tannish-peach streak runs along the costa, and a second similar streak runs along the inner margin. The orbicular and reniform stigmata are tannish peach with white edges, and are confluent with the costal streak. Several straight, parallel pale lines appear before the termen, with the innermost of these being white. Its hindwing is paler in color than the forewings. Dark-suffused specimens of this species are named obscurior Spul. This moth, also referred to as Lithacodia uncula, has an extensive distribution range. It extends from the western Pyrenees in France all the way to Japan. To the north, its range reaches southern and central England, Ireland, the Baltic Sea region of Scandinavia, Finland, and northern Russia. It is largely absent from the Mediterranean, apart from small known populations on the French Mediterranean coast, in Tuscany, and along the northern Adriatic coast of northern Italy, Slovenia, and Croatia. In southeastern Europe, its range extends far south to northern Albania and northern Greece. From that area, it stretches east through the Russian Far East, northern China, Korea, and Japan. It also ranges south through Bulgaria, Ukraine, Crimea, southern Russia, Central Asia, and Siberia.
