Catocala neogama subsp. euphemia Beutenmuller 1907
Creators: name: Gall, Lawrence
name: Hawks, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Catocala
Catocala neogama
Catocala neogama ssp. euphemia beutenmüller

description: <i>Catocala neogama</i> ssp. <i>euphemia</i> Beutenmüller, stat. n. Fig. 16 (lectotype) <i>Catocala euphemia</i> Beutenmüller, 1907: 938 <i>Catocala euphemia</i>; Barnes and McDunnough 1918: 16 <i>Catocala euphemia</i>; McDunnough 1938: 115 <i>Catocala euphemia</i>; Franclemont and Todd 1983: 128 <b>Type material.</b> <i>Catocala euphemia</i>: the original description indicates types at the “American Entomological Society, American Museum of Natural History, and Brooklyn Institute of Art and Science.” A male type is at the AMNH, and is designated as <b>lectotype</b> to clarify application of the name <i>euphemia</i>. Th e lectotype bears the labels “Carr Canyon / Huachuca Mts. / Cochise Co. Ariz.”, “H. Skinner / August 1905 ”, “Type / No. / A.M.N.H.”, “ Catocala / euphemia / Type Beuten.” Barnes and McDunnough (1918:16) noted that <i>C. euphemia</i> could “be merely a southwestern race of <i>neogama</i> (J. E. Smith, 1797) but as there is some slight difference shown in the male claspers, we treat it as a species until the larval history is known.” At the same time, they described <i>C. loretta</i> from south-central Texas as a new race that “would appear to be intermediate between <i>neogama</i> and <i>euphemia</i>,” and suggested that the name <i>euphemia</i> be limited to the material from the Huachuca Mountains, Arizona, as has been done above. Although specimens of <i>C. euphemia</i> from Arizona and New Mexico are normally separable from specimens of <i>C. neogama</i> from the midwest and eastern United States, these two blend in the southcentral United States, particularly in Oklahoma and Texas; specimens referable to <i>loretta</i> mostly manifest toward the southern end of this blend. We have successfully reared larvae ex ovis from several broods of Arizona <i>C. euphemia</i> and eastern <i>C. neogama</i>, and have collected and reared many wild larvae of both taxa from various species of <i>Juglans</i>; we have found no substantial differences between these larvae. Three fluid preserved larvae of <i>C. loretta</i> at PMNH, collected by R. Kendall on <i>Juglans microcarpa</i> Berl. in Uvalde County, Texas, are likewise indistinguishable from larvae of <i>C. neogama</i> and <i>C. euphemia</i>. Accordingly, we treat <i>C. euphemia</i> as a subspecies of <i>C. neogama</i> (J. E. Smith, 1797). We refer material from Arizona, New Mexico, and extreme western Texas to <i>C. neogama euphemia</i>, and all other material to <i>C. n. neogama</i> (for analysis of <i>C. loretta</i> Barnes &amp; McDunnough, 1918 see its entry below). Type Locality: hereby restricted to Carr Canyon, Huachuca M[oun]t[ain]s, Cochise Co[unty], Arizona [USA] on the basis of the lectotype labels.
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 page 53, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.39.425, http://zenodo.org/record/576632
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