Catocala ophelia, H. Edwards, 1880

Gall, Lawrence & Hawks, David, 2010, Systematics of moths in the genus Catocala (Lepidoptera, Erebidae) IV. Nomenclatorial stabilization of the Nearctic fauna, with a revised synonymic check list, ZooKeys 39 (39), pp. 37-83 : 50

Catocala ophelia syn. dollii Beutenmüller , syn. n.

Fig. 14 (neotype)

Catocala ophelia var. dollii Beutenmüller, 1907: 940

Catocala ophelia form dolli; Barnes and McDunnough 1918: 38

Catocala ophelia ssp. dolli ; McDunnough 1938: 117

Catocala ophelia ssp. dolli ; Franclemont and Todd 1983: 129

Type material. Catocala ophelia var. dollii : the original description states “Male… Habitat – Colorado. A single specimen of this odd variety is in the collection of Mr. Jacob Doll.” Barnes and McDunnough (1918) claimed to have figured the holotype by monotypy, but the specimen from Doll’s collection marked as type at the USNM is a female from Arizona and bears a label written in 1932 by F. H. Benjamin stating “prob. spurious type.” Benjamin apparently worked on but never resolved this issue, as several other specimens of C. dollii in the USNM and AMNH collections bear notes by him inquiring as to the status of the holotype. Given Benjamin’s difficulties and the fact that the name refers to one of the taxonomically diffi cult western Nearctic species, we designate the USNM female noted above as neotype to clarify application of the name dollii . Th e neotype bears the labels “Prescott / VII. 21 Ariz.”, “Col. / Jacob Doll”, “Type / No. / A.M.N.H.”, “Type No. / 44535 / U.S. N.M.”, “Prob. spurious type. / Should be a ♁ from / Colorado (Doll Coll.) / FHB. 1932.” Type Locality: hereby amended to Prescott, Ariz[ona, USA] on the basis of the neotype labels.