Lepidoptera Biodiversity LLC

New Species Descriptions

Updated: April 2024

Since 2014 we have authored or coauthored formal taxonomic descriptions of the following ten new species of Catocala moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae).

1. Catocala toropovi Saldaitis, Kons, & Borth, 2014

Saldaitis, Aidas, Hugo L. Kons Jr., and Robert J. Borth. 2014. A new species of Catocala Schrank, 1802 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae (sensu lato): Erebinae) from Kazakhstan. Zootaxa. 3866(4): 543-554.

2. Catocala myristica Kons & Borth, 2015

Kons, Hugo L. Jr. and Robert J. Borth. 2015. A New Species of Catocala (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from the Southeastern United States. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 56(1): 55-65.

3. Catocala aestivalia Kons & Borth, 2015

Kons, Hugo L. Jr. and Robert J. Borth. 2015. A New Species of Catocala (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from Florida. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 56(1): 67-79.

4. Catocala didenko Kons, Borth, & Saldaitis, 2016

Kons, Hugo L. Jr., Robert J. Borth, and Aidas Saldaitis. 2016. A new species of Catocala Schrank, 1802 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from Primorsky Krai, Russia. Zootaxa. 4105(4): 389-399.

5. Catocala slotteni Kons & Borth, 2016

Kons, Hugo L. Jr. and Robert J. Borth. 2016. A New Species of Catocala (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from the Gulf Coast of Florida. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 57(2): 229-239.

6. Catocala ventura Borth & Kons, 2016

Borth, Robert J. and Hugo L. Kons Jr. 2016. A New Species of Catocala (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from California. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 57(2): 241-252.

7. Catocala bastropi Kons & Borth, 2017

Kons, Hugo L. Jr. and Robert J. Borth. 2017. A New Species of Catocala (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from the South Central United States. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 58(1): 31-46.

8. Catocala becheri Borth, Kons, & Saldaitis, 2017

Borth, Robert J., Hugo L. Kons Jr., and Aidas Saldaitis. 2017. A New Species of Catocala (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) fromVietnam. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 58(1): 47-64.

9. Catocala benedeki Borth, Kons, Saldaitis, & Gall, 2017

Kons, Hugo L. Jr., Robert J. Borth, Aidas Saldaitis, and Lawrence F. Gall. 2017. The taxonomy of Catocala nupta (Linnaeus, 1767) and its allies, with description of a new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Zootaxa. 4263(2): 251-272.

10. Catocala katsumii Kons, Borth, Saldaitis, & Didenko, 2017

Kons, Hugo L. Jr., Robert J. Borth, Aidas Saldaitis, and Sergei Didenko. 2017. The Catocala naganoi species group (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), with a new species from Vietnam. Zootaxa. 4358 (1): 389-399.

11. Eudocima afrikana Borth & Kons, 2022

Borth, Robert J. and Hugo L. Kons Jr. 2017. Mitochondrial genetics of Ophiderini, with a new species from the Eudocima phalonia species group (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Calpinae). Zootaxa. 5148 (1): 1-151.