Delilah Agonistes" and Cecil B. DeMille's 1949 Hollywood film "Samson and Delilah". Her name has become associated with treacherous and voluptuous women. Delilah was a woman of Sorek. She is the only woman in Samson's story who is named. The Bible says that Samson loved her () but not that she loved him. The two were not married and the idea that they had a sexual relationship is, in the words of Josey Bridges Snyder, "at most implicit in the biblical text". The lords of the Philistines bribed her to discover the source of Samson's great strength, each offering to give
Catocala delilah former subspecies "C. d. desdemona" (Desdemona Underwing), which occurs west of the Delilah Underwing from Arizona and Utah south through Mexico to Honduras, is now again considered to be a valid species "C. desdemona". This also includes the supposed subspecies "C. d. utahensis", the supposed species "C. ixion", and the forms "swetti" and "umbra". Catocala delilah The Delilah Underwing ("Catocala delilah") is an Erebidae species. It is found in the southern and midwestern United States, from Ohio south to Florida and west to Texas and Oklahoma. The wingspan is 60–65 mm. The forewings are grayish-brown above, with a clearly marked