Aemilia Kirby, 1892

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), pp. 137-533 : 380

Genus Aemilia Kirby, 1892

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Aemilia Kirby, 1892: 218 . Replacement name for Ameles Walker, 1855 .

Ameles Walker, 1855a: 711 . Junior homonym of Ameles Burmeister, [1838] .

TYPE SPECIES. — Ameles rubriplaga Walker, 1855 , by monotypy.

Figures

FIG. 19. — A-H, dorsal views. A, Pygarctia abdominalis Grote, 1871, USA, South Carolina (CNC); B, Pygoctenucha terminalis (Walker, 1854), Holotype, Mexico (BMNH); C, Pareuchaetes insulata (Walker, 1855), syntype female, Jamaica (BMNH); D, Lerina incarnata Walker, 1854, holotype male, Mexico (BMNH); E, Ectypia bivittata Clemens, 1861, USA, Texas (CNC); F, Aemilia rubriplaga (Walker, 1855),holotype female,Venezuela (BMNH);G, Venedictoffia flavicollis Toulgoët,1977,Ecuador,Laguna de Papallacta (MNHN);H, Virbia mentiens Walker, 1854, holotype male, Venezuela (BMNH). Scale bars: 0.5 cm.