Butterflies and Moths of the World Generic Names and their Type-species

Genus:
Catocala Schrank, 1802 . Fauna boica 2 (2) : 158.

Status:
Available Name

Homonyms: 1

Higher classification:
NOCTUOIDEA : NOCTUIDAE : CATOCALINAE

Type-species:
Phalaena nupta Linnaeus , 1767 Systema Naturae (Edn 12) 1 : 841. .

Type-species designation:
by subsequent designation by, Curtis , 1828 British entomology 5 : 217.

Type specimens:
Syntypes, GERMANY: , (LS, London).

Type specimens:
Syntypes, [N.W. AFRICA]: Barbariae, (LS, London).

Notes:
Poole (1989) included HEMIGEOMETRA Haworth, 1809; EPHESIA Hübner, 1818; LAMPROSIA Hübner, 1821; BELPHARIDIA Hübner, 1822; ASTIOTES Hübner, 1823; CORISCE Hübner, 1823; EUCORA Hübner, 1823; EUNETIS Hübner, 1823; MORMONIA Hübner, 1823; BLEPHARONIA Hübner, 1825; ANDREWSIA Grote, 1882; CATABAPTA Hulst, 1884; and ANDREUSIA Hampson, 1913 as junior synonyms of CATOCALA Schrank, 1802.

Poole (1989) included 232 species in the genus CATOCALA.

Junior name(s):
Blephara Ochsenheimer, 1816: 94.
Blepharum Hübner, 1806: [2].
Catacola ; Oken, 1815: 691.
Catocalla ; Hübner, 1823: 276.
Lamprosia Hübner, 1827: 277.