Aemilia (moth)

Aemilia
Aemilia affinis.JPG
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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]

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

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.

References

• 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.