Curvie emesia

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Curvie emesia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Riodinidae
Tribe: Emesidini
Genus: Curvie
Species:
C. emesia
Binomial name
Curvie emesia
(Hewitson, 1867)
Synonyms [1]
  • Symmachia emesiaHewitson, 1867
  • Emesis emesia(Hewitson, 1867)
  • Symmachia yucatanensisGodman & Salvin, 1886

Curvie emesia, the curve-winged metalmark, is a species of metalmark in the butterfly family Riodinidae. It is found in North America. [2]

Subspecies

These two subspecies belong to the species Emesis emesia:

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References

  1. Zhang, Jing; Shen, Jinhui; Cong, Qian; Grishin, Nick (2019). "Genomic analysis of the tribe Emesidini (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae)". Zootaxa . 4668 (4): 475–488. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4668.4.2. PMC   8958898 .
  2. Pohl, Gregory; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). "Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico": 1–766.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)