Catocala hermia subsp. francisca H. Edwards
Creators: name: Gall, Lawrence
name: Hawks, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Catocala
Catocala hermia
Catocala hermia ssp. francisca h. edwards

description: <i>Catocala hermia</i> ssp. <i>francisca</i> H. Edwards, stat. n. Fig. 17 (lectotype) <i>Catocala mariana</i> var. <i>francisca</i> H. Edwards, 1880b: 57 <i>Catocala francisca</i>; Barnes and McDunnough 1918: 25 <i>Catocala francisca</i>; McDunnough 1938: 116 <i>Catocala francisca</i>; Franclemont and Todd 1983: 128 <b>Type material.</b> <i>Catocala mariana</i> var. <i>francisca</i>: Th e original description states “Humboldt Co., Cal. 2 ♁. Type, coll. Hy. Edwards.” Beutenmüller (1892: 191) lists the <i>C. francisca</i> types as being at the AMNH, and a male type is there but bears Mendocino County, California locality labels. At the USNM is a male labeled “Type 2” [examined], also from Mendocino County. Although the county on these labels conflicts with the original description, Barnes and McDunnough (1918: 24- 25) have already noted that errors in locality data do occur with type specimens of the dark-forewinged western <i>Catocala</i>. Mendocino and Humboldt counties are adjacent to one another, and the county indicated on the label is the only information we have that might otherwise disqualify the two aforementioned <i>C. francisca</i> males as syntypes. With deference to Beutenmüller and Barnes and McDunnough’s judgments, we consider it likely that a mislabeling occurred, and designate the AMNH male as <b>lectotype</b> to clarify application of the name <i>francisca</i>. Th e lectotype bears the labels “Mendocino Co./ California ”, “7299”, “No. 11889 / Collection / Hy. Edwards.”, “Type / No. / A.M.N.H.”, “ Cat. mariana / v. francisca / Type. Hy. Edw.” From rearing work and analysis of museum specimens, we have concluded that <i>C. francisca</i> is neither a full species nor conspecific with <i>C. californica</i> Edwards, 1864 (= <i>C. mariana</i> Strecker, 1874), but rather is a coastal Californian subspecies of <i>C. hermia</i> H. Edwards, 1880 with uniform, dark greenish-black forewings. Type Locality: hereby amended to Mendocino Co[unty], California, [USA] on the basis of the lectotype label.
description: Published as part of <i>Gall, Lawrence &amp; Hawks, David, 2010, Systematics of moths in the genus Catocala (Lepidoptera, Erebidae) IV. Nomenclatorial stabilization of the Nearctic fauna, with a revised synonymic check list, pp. 37-83 in ZooKeys 39 (39)</i> on pages 53-54, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.39.425, http://zenodo.org/record/576632
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