Catocala lineella, Grote, 1872

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 : 63

Catocala lineella syn. nerissa H. Edwards , syn. rev.

Fig. 29 (lectotype)

Catocala nerissa H. Edwards, 1880: 61

Catocala amica form nerissa ; Barnes and McDunnough 1918: 45

Catocala amica syn. nerissa ; McDunnough 1938: 118

Catocala amica syn. nerissa ; Franclemont and Todd 1983: 129

Type material. Catocala nerissa : the original description states “Type, coll. B. Neumoegen.” At the AMNH is a nerissa labeled “Type” and at the USNM is another nerissa labeled “Type 2.” The AMNH type is a specimen of C. lineella Grote, 1872 and the USNM type is a specimen of C. jair Strecker, 1897 . The AMNH male is designated as lectotype to clarify application of the name nerissa . The name nerissa thereby attaches to C. lineella , which itself was reinstated to species status by Gall (1990). The lectotype bears the labels “S. West / Texas.”, “No. 11784 / Collection / Hy. Edwards.”, “ Cat. amica / var. nerissa . / Type Hy. Edw.” Type Locality: hereby restricted to S[outh] West Texas, [ USA] on the basis of the lectotype labels.