Cretonia vegetus (Swinhoe, 1885: 475)

Joshi, Rahul, Raha, Angshuman, Bandyopadhyay, Uttaran, Bhattacharyya, Kamalika & Singh, Navneet, 2025, A catalogue of Noctuidae Latreille, 1809 (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) from India, Zootaxa 5669 (1), pp. 1-225 : 53-54

2. Cretonia vegetus (Swinhoe, 1885: 475) ( Spadix )

TL: Bombay [ Bombay Province or Bombay Presidency]

Distribution. India: Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra (Swinhoe 1885, Komal et al. 2021). Global: China, Indonesia (Sumatra), Malaysia (Borneo), Myanmar, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Vietnam ( Kononenko & Pinratana 2013).

Genus Deltote Reichenbach, 1817: 288

Type species: Phalaena argentula Hübner, 1787: 9 , pl. 2, fig. F., by subsequent designation by Nye (1975): 152.

= 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, 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)