Catocala alabamae, Grote, 1875

Gall, Lawrence & 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, ZooKeys 39 (39), pp. 37-83 : 65

Catocala alabamae syn. olivia H. Edwards , syn. n.

Catocala olivia H. Edwards, 1880a: 95

Catocala olivia ; Barnes and McDunnough 1918: 41

Catocala olivia ; McDunnough 1938: 118

Catocala olivia ; Franclemont and Todd 1983: 129

Type material. Catocala olivia : holotype ♁ [ USNM, examined]. Catocala olivia has previously been treated as a full species, but, as suggested by Barnes and McDunnough (1918: 41), it is an extreme infrapopulational variant of C. alabamae Grote, 1875 with a large black basal forewing patch. We have seen intergrades between C. olivia and typical C. alabamae from several localities in Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma, and J. Slotten (in litt.) has reared both C. olivia and typical C. alabamae ex ovis from a female from eastern Texas. Th e color form parvula W. H. Edwards, 1864 of C. minuta Edwards, 1864 is a parallel to the color form olivia of C. alabamae . Type Locality: S[outh] W[est] Texas, [ USA].