Catocala lineella syn. nerissa H. Edwards, syn. rev.

Fig. 29 (lectotype)

Catocala nerissa H. Edwards, 1880: 61

Catocala amica form nerissa; Barnes and McDunnough 1918: 45

Catocala amica syn. nerissa; McDunnough 1938: 118

Catocala amica syn. nerissa; Franclemont and Todd 1983: 129

Type material. Catocala nerissa: the original description states “Type, coll. B. Neumoegen.” At the AMNH is a nerissa labeled “Type” and at the USNM is another nerissa labeled “Type 2.” The AMNH type is a specimen of C. lineella Grote, 1872 and the USNM type is a specimen of C. jair Strecker, 1897 . The AMNH male is designated as lectotype to clarify application of the name nerissa . The name nerissa thereby attaches to C. lineella, which itself was reinstated to species status by Gall (1990). The lectotype bears the labels “S. West / Texas.”, “No. 11784 / Collection / Hy. Edwards.”, “ Cat. amica / var. nerissa . / Type Hy. Edw.” Type Locality: hereby restricted to S[outh] West Texas, [USA] on the basis of the lectotype labels.