Catocala briseis, W. H. Edwards, 1864

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 : 62

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.39.425
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3788652
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038D2962-FF82-1B08-5EE0-FB7CFEEEF977
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Catocala briseis
status	syn. n.

Treatment

Catocala briseis syn. minerva Cassino , syn. n.

Catocala minerva Cassino, 1917: 63

Catocala briseis syn. minerva ; Barnes and McDunnough 1918: 26

Catocala briseis ssp. minerva ; McDunnough 1938: 116

Catocala briseis ssp. minerva ; Franclemont and Todd 1983: 129

Type material. Catocala minerva : holotype ♁ [ USNM, examined]. Th e name minerva has been treated for many years as a subspecies of C. briseis Edwards, 1864 , but C. minerva is a lighter color form of C. briseis that occurs regularly throughout much of the western geographic range of the species. Type Locality: Deer Creek, Provo Canyon, Utah, [ USA].