Catocalini

Larval and pupal features (e.g. a bloom) support a general association of the group with other core catocalines as discussed on p. 22 and p. 24, though reduction of the prolegs is only slight.

Mitter & Silverfine (1988) presented a phylogeny for the group that separated Catocala and Ulotrichopus Wallengren from a predominantly African clade that included Audea Walker, CrypsotidiaRothschild and HypotachaHampson. Within the Catocala clade, Ulotrichopus species showed monophyly but were nested within Catocala. Recognition of Ulotrichopus as a good genus (e.g. as in Kobes (1985), Poole (1989) and Fibiger (2003)) would render Catocala paraphyletic in this system, therefore Ulotrichopus is included as a synonym of Catocala, an arrangement also adopted by Fu & Tzoo (2002).