Catocala amica novangliae Reiff, 1916

This name is not allowed for current identifications/data entry in MCZbase.

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Subclass	Order	Suborder	Superfamily	Family	Subfamily	Genus	Species	Subspecies	Nomenclatural_Code
Animalia	Arthropoda	Insecta	Pterygota	Lepidoptera	Glossata	Noctuoidea	Erebidae	Erebinae	Catocala	amica	novangliae	ICZN

Name Authority: original description

Published In: 1916

Remarks: From Gall, 1990: "The relevance of the name aurantiaca Reiff (1916) to the name novangliae should be addressed. Reiff (1916) published aurantiaca improperly as a collective epithetapplying simultaneously to several infrasubspecific taxa. Dyar (1917, p.31) restricted the name aurantiaca to the single female depicted in Figure 2, Plate 2 of Reiff’sarticle, thus limiting the usage to Catocala amica subspecies novangliae form aurantiaca (sensu Reiff). Dyar’s action constituted a valid lectotype designation for aurantiaca. In his description of Catocala amica subspecies novangliae, Reiff listed a male and female as types, illustrating these specimens in Figures1-2 of his Plate 2. Thus, the female aurantiaca lectotype designated by Dyar is an available novangliae syntype, and for the sake of parsimony, I designate this previously illustrated female as theLECTOTYPE for novangliae Reiff (see Figure 6). The type locality is Concord, MiddlesexCounty], Mass[achusetts, USA]. Both aurantiaca and novangliae are synonyms of Catocala lineella (NEW STATUS for each)."