Catocala carissima Hulst 1880
Creators
- 1. Yale University, New Haven ,,
- 2. University of California, Riverside ,, United States of America
Description
Catocala carissima Hulst, stat. n.
Fig. 7 (lectotype)
Catocala carissima Hulst, 1880: 97
Catocala cara race carissima; Barnes and McDunnough 1918: 31
Catocala cara ssp. carissima; McDunnough 1938: 117
Catocala cara ssp. carissima; Franclemont and Todd 1983: 129
Type material. Catocala carissima: Th e original description does not state the number of types. Several types are at the AMNH, and a male is designated as lectotype to clarify application of the name carissima. Th e lectotype bears the labels “Fla.”, “Collection / GDHulst”, “ Catocala / cara / var. carissima / Type Hulst.” Hulst (1880: 97) stated “We have a form of Catocala cara which is not found in the North and which seems to be the constant form in the South.” Specimens of C. cara and C. carissima are readily separable, and despite the fact that C. cara is principally northern and C. carissima principally southern, a zone of sympatry extends across much of the southern United States. Th e egg of C. carissima is consistently smaller than that of C. cara (eggs from several females of each taxon have been examined; this size difference is unusual among related species of Catocala). We have never reared C. carissima from C. cara females, out of a half dozen broods from differing locations in the USA, and hence elevate C. carissima to species rank. Type Locality: hereby restricted to Fl[orid]a, [USA] on the basis of the lectotype locality label.
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.3897/zookeys.39.425 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/576632 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFB4511AFF9B1B115E6CFF95FFCAFFF0 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Genus
- Catocala
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Hulst
- Species
- carissima
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Catocala carissima Hulst, 1880 sec. Gall & Hawks, 2010
References
- Hulst GD (1880) Catocala pura, n. sp; Catocala carissima, n. var. In: Edwards H, Descriptions of some new species of Catocala. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 2, 96 - 97.
- Barnes W, McDunnough J (1918) Illustrations of the North American species of the genus Catocala. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 3: 1 - 47.
- McDunnough JH (1938) Check List of the Lepidoptera of Canada and the United States of America. Part I. Macrolepidoptera. Memoirs of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 1: 1 - 275.
- Franclemont JG, Todd EL (1983) Noctuidae. In: Hodges RW (Ed) Check list of the Lepidoptera of America north of Mexico. University Press, Cambidge, 120 - 159.