SOKO Stuttgart: With BenjaminStrecker, Peter Ketnath, Karl Kranzkowski, Astrid M. Fünderich. The SOKO Stuttgart team investigates analytically and with sensitivity in the likeable state capital.
The species was first described by Strecker in 1876. The nominate form is found in the US states of Texas and Oklahoma. Subspecies Catocala herodias gerhardi is found from Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York to Virginia.