Aemilia Kirby 1892

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

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.