The taxonomic position of the Neotropical genus Casandria Walker, 1857, with new synonymies and combinations (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Catocalinae)

Casandria Walker, 1857, is transferred from the Nolidae (Collomeninae) to Erebidae (Catocalinae), as senior synonym of Acathodica Schaus, 1894. Consequently, species formerly associated with Acanthodica are herein Casandria: C. albiplena (L. B. Prout, 1919) (Acanthodica), comb. n., cabra (Dognin, 1894) chiripa coelebs drucei 1889) (Calocampa), emittens 1857 [=Agrotis daunus Druce, 1894)], syn. [=Acanthodica grandis (Schaus, fassli (Zerny, 1916) fosteri (Hampson, 1913) frigida (Jones, 1921) hages (Druce, 1900) lignaris penicillum (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874 (Agrotis), sinuilinea splendens xylinoides n. The following species, Motya 1859: M. araea 1911) (Casandria), flotsama (Dyar, 1914) insignis steniptera A table all taxa both and presented in “Nommenclature summary”, illustrations types A. 1894, well a live 1889), also presented.