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]

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

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.

References

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