Catocala badia ssp. coelebs syn. phoebe Hulst

Fig. 33 (lectotype)

Catocala badia var. phoebe Hulst, 1884: 50

Catocala badia var. phoebe; Barnes and McDunnough 1918: 8

Catocala badia syn. phoebe; McDunnough 1938: 115

Catocala coelebs syn. phoebe; Franclemont and Todd 1983: 128

Type material. Catocala phoebe: the name phoebe was proposed by Hulst as “A form intermediate between coelebs and badia … Found in Mass. and N. Hampshire.” Since Hulst gave distinguishing characters and non-overlapping geographic localities for each of C. badia Grote & Robinson, 1866, C. coelebs Grote, 1874 and C. phoebe, the name phoebe was proposed in a subspecific context and is available. Hulst cited the name phoebe to “Hy. Edw. MSS,” but Hulst’s paper was published before Edwards’ description appeared. Two females from Hy. Edwards’ type lot are at the AMNH, and one is designated lectotype to clarify application of the name phoebe Hulst. Th e lectotype bears the labels “ New Hampshire ”, “No. 11779 / Collection / Hy. Edwards.”, “Type / No. / A.M.N.H.” Type Locality: hereby restricted to New Hampshire, [USA] on the basis of the lectotype labels.