Catocala = kah-TOCK-uh-lah

Although it is my intent to make the information on this site as scientifically accurate as possible with regard to identification, taxonomies, ranges, flight times, etc., the main emphasis will be to reveal the life histories of these interesting moths and to provide insights into the challenges of rearing and observing them.

Website created and maintained by Bill Oehlke. Contact Bill at Pauncho

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Help me build this site by sending electronic images of adult moths and larvae along with sighting/collecting data.

Kelly Richers has sent me extensive collecting data for California. Click to see map and data.

As of April 4, 2010, this page has been further updated as per research data compiled by Larry Gall and David Hawks.

I would like to continue to refine the listings to county levels so images and data (date, location at least to county level, bait, lights) would be very much appreciated. Please send same to Bill Oehlke. All images that I use on my websites remain the property of respective photographers and images are credited as such.

January 1, 2013:
Larry Gall of Connecticut writes,
"Hi Bill,
"In the spring of 2013 I'm again rearing several dozen species of Catocala for research purposes, and I have some surplus eggs that I'd be happy to offer free to those using your site (first come, first served). I can offer varying small quantities of eggs of amatrix, angusi, briseis, innubens, lacrymosa, neogama, piatrix, robinsonii, and vidua at this time. If any of your subscribers/readers has eggs that they would like to exchange, I would also very much welcome that.
"Best wishes, Larry"

You can contact Larry via email at Lawrence F. Gall, Ph.D.

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If you take advantage of this offer from Larry Gall, please send me photos of larvae to enhance the coverage of the site. (Bill Oehlke)

I have begun to create state by state checklists. Those states listed in green now have active thumbnail pictoral checklists. As far as I know there are no Catocala known from Alaska or Hawaii.

If you have corrections, additions, images, information, please send same along.

Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia

Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland

Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey

New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina

South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

Tim Dyson has sent me outstanding images of live moths from Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. Check out the Catocala along Tim's Bait Trail at Tim Dyson: Night Vison Photography.

Visit other Lepidoptera websites designed and maintained by Bill Oehlke by clicking on the BLUE TEXT:

Saturniidae of Prince Edward Island: Livestock for sale

Caterpillars Too!: a membership site featuring images of North American butterfly caterpillars and adult butterflies, too, to help with identification.

ARCTIIDAE: TIGER MOTHS; WOOLLY BEAR CATERPILLARS

SPHINGIDAE OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

BUTTERFLIES OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

THE KIRBY WOLFE SATURNIIDAE COLLECTION

THE THIBAUD DECAENS SATURNIIDAE COLLECTION

THE LEROY SIMON SATURNIIDAE COLLECTION

THE WORLD'S LARGEST SATURNIIDAE SITE

SPHINGIDAE OF THE UNITED STATES

SPHINGIDAE OF THE AMERICAS

Caterpillar Identification Guide

Visit "Systematics of moths in the genus Catocala (Lepidoptera, Erebidae) IV.
Nomenclatorial stabilization of the Nearctic fauna, with a revised synonymic check list";
ZooKeys 39: 37–83 (2010) by Lawrence F. Gall, David C. Hawks

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I very much appreciate all the many images that have been sent to me, or of which I have been granted permission to copy and post from other websites. All images on this site remain the property of respective photographers.

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