Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Catocala subnata Grote, 1864
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Explanation of Names
Specific epithet from
Latin possible meaning "to arise, grow up."
Numbers
Lafontaine & Schmidt (2010) included 101 species of the genus
Catocala in America north of Mexico.
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Powell & Opler (2009) reported 110 species in all of North America, and about 230 worldwide.
(6)Identification
Adult - forewing grayish with well-defined AM and PM lines, having significant brown scaling in post-median area bordering distal edge of PM line and sometimes in AM area; reniform spot large and reddish-brown; subreniform spot round to pork chop shaped and can be open or closed (i.e. no elongated "tail" extending to subterminal area); Males lack black basal dash, while it may (usually) or may not be present in females; head and thorax grayish while abdomen is orange/yellow dorsally. Hindwing with broad black and yellow/orange bands, as in several other Catocala species.
Range
Eastern North America.
Lectotype male: Maryland.
(8)Season
Adults on the wing July-Sept
Food
Walnut, butternut, hickory.
(7)See Also
Catocala neogama is often indistinguishable by photo from
subnata. However, male
subnata lack the black basal dash that is present in
neogama allowing any image of a specimen without the black basal dash to be identified as
subnata. Outside of dissection or sequencing, specimens
with the black basal dash can only reliably be identified by examination of the hind tibia:
subnata; cylindrical with ventral surface densely covered with evenly distributed spines
neogama; compressed/flattened with ventral surface sparsely covered with sporadically distributed spines
Comparison of spines of subnata (top), and neogama (bottom):
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.
15;
Pl.6, f.15-16.
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Grote, A.R., 1864. Descriptions of North America Lepidoptera, No. 4.
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 3:
326;
Pl.4, f.5.
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