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Species Catocala junctura - Joined Underwing - Hodges#8829
Classification Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Noctuoidea (Owlet Moths and kin)
Family Erebidae
Subfamily Erebinae
Tribe Catocalini
Genus Catocala (Underwings)
Species junctura (Joined Underwing - Hodges#8829)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes Catocala junctura Walker, [1858] (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)
Catocala walshii Edwards, 1864 (7), (8)
Catocala stretchii Behr, 1870 ( 24) (5), (6)
Catocala arizonae Grote, 1873 (9), (8), (5), (10)
Catocala aspasia Strecker, 1874 (11), (5), (10), (6), (12)
Catocala augusta Hy. Edwards, 1875 ( 184) (5)
Catocala portia Hy. Edwards, 1880 (13), (5)
Catocala sara French 1883 (12)
Catocala stretchii var. sierrae Beutenmüller, 1897 (14), (15)
Catocala julietta French, 1916 ( 72), (6)
Phylogenetic sequence #930809
Numbers Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) included 101 species of the genus Catocala in America north of Mexico. (16)
Powell & Opler (2009) reported 110 species in all of North America, and about 230 worldwide. (17)
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) treats the six subspecies as synonyms. (16)
Size Powell & Opler (2009) listed the wingspan of the former Arizona subspecies as 33-38 mm. (17)
Range Records from most of North America less the Atlantic Coast. (19)
Food Larval hosts are willow and poplar.
Print References Barnes, Wm. & J.H. McDunnough, 1918. Illustrations of the North American species of the genus Catocala. Memoirs of the AMNH 2(1): p. 29; Pl.8, f.6, 7. (6)
Powell, J.A. & P.A. Opler, 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press, p. 262, pl. 45.8. (17)
Walker, F., 1857. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part XIII - Noctuidae. British Museum (Natural History), p. 1196. (1)
Works Cited 2. | On the North American species of Catocala. Augustus Radcliffe Grote. 1872. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 4: 1-20. | |
3. | On certain Catocalae. C.E. Worthington. 1883. Papilio 3(2): 39-41. | |
4. | Notes upon the genus Catocala, with descriptions of new varieties and species. Henry Edwards. 1880. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 3(7): 53-62. | |
5. | The genus Catocala. George. D. Hulst. 1884. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 7(1): 14-56. | |
6. | Illustrations of the North American species of the genus Catocala. William Barnes, James Halliday McDunnough. 1918. Memoirs of the AMNH 2(1). | |
7. | Descriptions of certain species of Catocala, found within the United States. William Henry Edwards. 1864. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 2: 508-512. | |
8. | Systematics of moths in the genus Catocala (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). III. Gall, Lawrence F. & David C. Hawks. 2002. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 56(4): 234-264. | |
9. | On the genus Catocala. Augustus Radcliffe Grote. 1873. The Canadian Entomologist 5(9): 161-164. | |
10. | Notes on some species of Catocala. William Beutenmüller . 1903. Bulletin of the AMNH, 19(19): 505-510. | |
12. | Systematics of moths in the genus Catocala (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). I. Gall, Lawrence F. & David C. Hawks. 1990. Fieldiana. Zoology. 59: 1-16. | |
13. | Descriptions of some new species of Catocala. Henry Edwards. 1880. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 2(12): 93-97. | |
14. | Notes on some species of North American moths. William Beutenmüller . 1897. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 9(14): 209-212. | |
17. | Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press. | |
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