Aemilia (moth)

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Aemilia
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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
Synonyms
  • AmelesWalker, 1855 (non Burmeister, [1838]: preoccupied)

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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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]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Pitkin & Jenkins (2004), and see references in Savela
  2. ↑ Schmidt (2009)
  3. ↑ Wikispecies (5 December 2010), and see references in Savela (2004)
  4. ↑ Savela, Markku. "Aemilia mincosa (Druce, 1906)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved 9 September 2019.

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