Catocala faustina ssp. allusa, Hulst, 1884

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 : 44-45

Catocala faustina ssp. allusa syn. caerulea Beutenmüller , syn. n.

Fig. 6 (lectotype)

Catocala caerulea Beutenmüller, 1903: 939

Catocala faustina race caerulea ; Barnes and McDunnough 1918: 23

Catocala cleopatra ssp. caerulea ; McDunnough 1938: 116

Catocala cleopatra ssp. caerulea ; Franclemont and Todd 1983: 128

Type material. Catocala caerulea : the original description does not state the number of types. Th ere are two male types at the AMNH, and one is designated as lectotype

to clarify application of the name caerulea . Th e lectotype bears the labels “ Oregon ”, “Type / No. / A.M.N.H.”, “ Catocala / caerulea / Beut.” The name caerulea has been treated since Barnes and McDunnough (1917) as a subspecies of nominate C. faustina , but the name allusa Hulst, 1884 has priority over the name caerulea for the coastal northwestern subspecies. Type Locality: Oregon, [ USA].