Species Catocala miranda - Hodges#8855

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

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 miranda (Catocala miranda - Hodges#8855)

Hodges Number

8855

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Catocala miranda Edwards, 1881 (1), (2), (3)

Catabapta judith var. miranda (4)

Explanation of Names

Specific epithet for Miranda of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Actor and entomologist Henry Edwards often used female characters from Shakespeare when naming bugs.

Size

Wingspan 37-45 mm. (5)

Range

Eastern United States. (6)

Lectotype male: Washington, D.C. (7)

Food

hawthorn Crataegus. (5)

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.39; Pl.8, f.22. (3)

Edwards, Hy., 1881, Descriptions of some new species of Heterocera. Papilio 1(7): 118. (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group (6)

Bill Oehlke's North American Catocala (5)

Henry Edwards (1827–1891)

Works Cited

1.	Descriptions of some new species of Heterocera. Henry Edwards. 1881. Papilio 1(7): .

2.	New forms of Catocala. William Beutenmüller . 1907. Bulletin of the Americal Museum of Natural History, 23(26): 935-940.

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

4.	The genus Catocala. George. D. Hulst. 1884. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 7(1): 14-56.

5.	Bill Oehlke's North American Catocala

6.	North American Moth Photographers Group

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

Contributed by Maury J. Heiman on 26 November, 2013 - 9:05pm
Additional contributions by marcie oconnor, Randy Hardy
Last updated 15 March, 2018 - 8:40am

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