Catocala junctura, Walker, 1858

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 : 69

Catocala junctura syn. stretchii Behr , syn. n.

Fig. 38 (neotype)

Catocala stretchii Behr, 1870: 24

Catocala stretchi ; Barnes and McDunnough 1918: 30

Catocala stretchi ; McDunnough 1938: 116

Catocala stretchi ; Franclemont and Todd 1983: 129

Type material. Catocala stretchii : the original description states “One specimen, collect- ed by Mr. Stretch, at Virginia City.” Barnes and McDunnough (1918: 30) stated: “The type of stretchi being lost, there only remains a specimen in the H. Edwards collection marked ‘true to type’; this, however is from Havilah, Kern County.” They compared this H. Edwards specimen to what they considered C. stretchi from Truckee, C. portia H. Edwards, 1880 and C. sierrae Beutenmüller, 1897 and concluded that these three names referred to the same species (viz. C. junctura Walker [1858] ). We have not been able to locate the C. stretchii type. Since the name refers to a member of the taxonomically diffi cult western Nearctic species, the female in the AMNH labeled true to type is designated as neotype to clarify application of the name stretchii . The neotype bears the labels “Havilah / California.”, “7300”, “No. 12646 / Collection / Hy. Edwards.”, “Stretchii, / Behr. / True to type.” Th e neotype of C. stretchii is a typical specimen of the widespread and morphologically variable C. junctura Walker, [1858] . Type Locality: hereby amended to Havilah, California, [ USA] on the basis of the neotype labels.