Aemilia (moth)
Aemilia is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae described by William Forsell Kirby in 1892. It was initially named Ameles, but this name properly refers to a praying mantis genus.[1]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Subtribe: | Phaegopterina |
| Genus: | Aemilia Kirby, 1892 |
| Type species | |
| Ameles rubriplaga Walker, 1855 | |
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A group of species closely related to the red-banded aemilia ("A." ambigua) was formerly placed in the genus (though only uneasily so). The species has recently been moved to the revalidated genus Pseudohemihyalea.[2]
Selected species
Species of Aemilia include:[3]
- Aemilia affinis (Rothschild, 1909)
- Aemilia asignata Hampson, 1901
- Aemilia castanea Joicey & Talbot, 1916
- Aemilia crassa (Walker, [1865])
- Aemilia fanum (Druce, 1900)
- Aemilia melanchra Schaus, 1905
- Aemilia mincosa[4] (Druce, 1906)
- Aemilia ockendeni (Rothschild, 1909)
- Aemilia pagana (Schaus, 1894)
- Aemilia peropaca (Seitz, 1920)
- Aemilia rubriplaga (Walker, 1855)
- Aemilia tabaconas (Joicey & Talbot, 1916)
- Aemilia testudo Hampson, 1901
Footnotes
- Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), and see references in Savela
- Schmidt (2009)
- Wikispecies (5 December 2010), and see references in Savela (2004)
- Savela, Markku. "Aemilia mincosa (Druce, 1906)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
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References
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Wikispecies has information related to Aemilia |
- Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Aemilia Kirby, 1892". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
- Savela, Markku. "Aemilia Kirby, 1892". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
- Schmidt, B. Christian. (2009). "Revision of the "Aemilia" ambigua (Strecker) species-group (Noctuidae, Arctiinae)". ZooKeys. 9: 63-78. doi:10.3897/zookeys.9.149
- Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel. (2014). "Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae)". Zoosystema. 36 (2): 380.
External links
- Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Arctiidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.
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