Deltote musta

Deltote musta, the small mossy lithacodia moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote and Coleman Townsend Robinson in 1868.^[1] It is found in the US from New Hampshire to Florida, west to Arizona and north to Wisconsin.^[2]

Small mossy lithacodia moth
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Deltote
Species:	D. musta
Binomial name
Deltote musta (Grote & Robinson, 1868)
Synonyms
Erastria musta Grote & Robinson, 1868 Lithacodia musta Eustrotia musta

The wingspan is 15–19 mm. Adults are on wing from May to September.