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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 allusa - Hodges#8809 (Catocala allusa)

Species Catocala allusa - Hodges#8809

Classification · Hodges Number · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Range · Habitat · 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 allusa (Catocala allusa - Hodges#8809)
Hodges Number
8809
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Catocala allusa Hulst, 1884 (1), (2)
Catocala faustina allusa (Hulst, 1884) (3)
Catocala frenchii Poling, 1901 (3)
Explanation of Names
Subspecific epithet is Latin meaning "frolicked, jested."
Catocala allusa Hulst, 1884, previously synonymized as a subspecies of Catocala faustina by Gall & Hawks (2010)(3), is reinstated as a full species in Pohl et al. (2018)(4) following Crabo et al. (2013)(5).
Range
British Columbia to northern California. (6)
Habitat
Coastal.
Food
Poplar and willow. (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.22; Pl.5, f.15. (2)
Crabo, L.G., P. Hammond, M. Peterson, J. Shepard, & R. Zack (editors), 2013. Pacific Northwest Moths. (5)
Hulst, G.D., 1884. The genus Catocala. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 7(1): 45. (1)
Internet References
Moth Photographers Group (MPG) (7)
The Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) (8)
Pacific Northwest Moths (PNM) (5)
Bill Oehlke's North American Catocala (6)
BOLD Systems
George D. Hulst (1846-1900)
Works Cited
1.The genus Catocala.
George. D. Hulst. 1884. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 7(1): 14-56.
2.Illustrations of the North American species of the genus Catocala.
William Barnes, James Halliday McDunnough. 1918. Memoirs of the AMNH 2(1).
3.Systematics of moths in the genus Catocala (Lepidoptera, Erebidae) IV. Nomenclatorial stabilization of the ....
Lawrence Gall, David Hawks. 2010. Zookeys 39: 37-83.
4.Annotated checklist of the moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera) of Canada and Alaska
Pohl, et al. 2018. Pensoft, 580 pages.
5.Pacific Northwest Moths
6.Bill Oehlke's North American Catocala
7.North American Moth Photographers Group
8.BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data Systems
Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 12 September, 2013 - 10:02pm
Additional contributions by Steve Nanz, Jason D. Roberts, Randy Hardy
Last updated 18 June, 2018 - 3:46am

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