Systematics of moths in the genus Catocala (Lepidoptera, Erebidae) IV. Nomenclatorial stabilization of the Nearctic fauna, with a revised synonymic check list Author Gall, Lawrence Yale University, New Haven ,, Author Hawks, David University of California, Riverside ,, United States of America text ZooKeys 2010 2010-03-18 39 39 37 83 journal article 10.3897/zookeys.39.425 7faaa125-e85b-4e6a-839f-369f3baa5964 1313–2970 576632 Catocala junctura syn. stretchii Behr , syn. n. Fig. 38 ( neotype ) Catocala stretchii Behr, 1870: 24 Catocala stretchi ; Barnes and McDunnough 1918: 30 Catocala stretchi ; McDunnough 1938: 116 Catocala stretchi ; Franclemont and Todd 1983: 129 Type material. Catocala stretchii : the original description states “One specimen, collect- ed by Mr. Stretch, at Virginia City.” Barnes and McDunnough (1918: 30) stated: “The type of stretchi being lost, there only remains a specimen in the H. Edwards collection marked ‘true to type’; this, however is from Havilah, Kern County.” They compared this H. Edwards specimen to what they considered C. stretchi from Truckee, C. portia H. Edwards, 1880 and C. sierrae Beutenmüller, 1897 and concluded that these three names referred to the same species (viz. C. junctura Walker [1858] ). We have not been able to locate the C. stretchii type. Since the name refers to a member of the taxonomically diffi cult western Nearctic species, the female in the AMNH labeled true to type is designated as neotype to clarify application of the name stretchii . The neotype bears the labels “Havilah / California .”, “7300”, “No. 12646 / Collection / Hy. Edwards.”, “Stretchii, / Behr. / True to type.” Th e neotype of C. stretchii is a typical specimen of the widespread and morphologically variable C. junctura Walker, [1858] . Type Locality: hereby amended to Havilah, California , [ USA ] on the basis of the neotype labels.