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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Erebinae » Catocalini » Underwings (Catocala) » Catocala violenta - Hodges#8853 (Catocala violenta)

Species Catocala violenta - Hodges#8853

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

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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 violenta (Catocala violenta - Hodges#8853)

Hodges Number

8853

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Catocala violenta Hy. Edwards, 1880 (1), (2), (3), (4)

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet for Violeta, a ghost character from Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well. Actor and entomologist Henry Edwards often named moths from Shakespeare works.

Size

Forewing length 2.2-2.6 cm. (5)

Range

Arizona to Texas, north to Colorado and Utah. (6)

Food

Oak (Quercus gambelii). (6)

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.37; Pl.3, f.3-4. (3)

Edwards, Hy. 1880. Notes upon the genus Catocala, with descriptions of new varieties and species. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 3(7): 58-59. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group

Bill Oehlke's North American Catocala (6)

Henry Edwards (1827–1891)

Works Cited

1.	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.

2.	Notes on some species of Catocala. William Beutenmüller . 1903. Bulletin of the AMNH, 19(19): 505-510.

3.	Illustrations of the North American species of the genus Catocala. William Barnes, James Halliday McDunnough. 1918. Memoirs of the AMNH 2(1).

4.	Systematics of moths in the genus Catocala (Lepidoptera, Erebidae) IV. Nomenclatorial stabilization of the .... Lawrence Gall, David Hawks. 2010. Zookeys 39: 37-83.

5.	Moths of Western North America Powell and Opler. 2009. UC Press.

6.	Bill Oehlke's North American Catocala

Contributed by Jason D. Roberts on 27 September, 2009 - 8:24pm
Additional contributions by John Schneider, marcie oconnor, Randy Hardy
Last updated 5 August, 2021 - 11:54pm

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