Catocala vidua, the widow underwing, is a moth of the family Erebidae.

The species was first described by James Edward Smith in 1797.

[1][2] It is found in North America from southern Ontario, into Maine, New Hampshire and Connecticut, south at least to Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama, west to Texas and Oklahoma, and north to Wisconsin.

Adults are on wing from August to October.

The larvae feed on Carya illinoinensis, Carya ovata, Carya pallida, Juglans cinerea, Juglans nigra, Quercus, Robinia pseudoacacia, and Salix.