Emesis

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Riodinidae
Subfamilia: Riodininae
Tribus: Emesidini
Genus: Emesis
Subgenera: E. (Aphacitis) – E. (Brimia) – E. (Emesis) – E. (Mandania) – E. (Poeasia) – E. (Tenedia)

Species: E. brimo – E. castigata – E. guttata – E. planeca
Name

Emesis Fabricius, 1807: 287.

Type Species: Hesperia ovidius Fabricius, 1793: 320; by selection of Westwood, [1851].
References
Primary references

Fabricius, J.C. 1807. In Illiger, J. K. W. Magazin für insektenkunde 6: 279–289. BHL. Reference page.

Additional references

Costa, M., Viloria Petit, Á.L., Callaghan, C.J., Trujano-Ortega, M., Neild, A.F.E., Benmesbah, M., Attal, S. & Grishin, N.V. 2021. Lepidoptera del Pantepui. Parte XI Nuevos Riodinidae (Riodininae), Pieridae (Dismorphiinae) y Nymphalidae (Satyrinae). Antenor 8(1): 02-28. Reference page.
Gallard, J.-Y. 2008: Rodinidae de Guyana Française Trois especes et trois sous-especes nouvelles (Lepidoptera). Lambillionea, 108(4): 441–454. Reference page.
Gallardo, R.J., Zhang, J., Cong, Q., Shen, J.H. & Grishin, N.V. 2021. A uniquely patterned new species of Emesis from Honduras (Riodinidae). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 31(1): 53-59. Reference page.
Hemming, A. F., 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1967, Suppl. 9: 1-509.Reference page.
Jauffret, P., Corêcha Jauffret, J.D. & Pessôa, A. 2008. Études préliminaires sur la fauna des Riodinidae du Nord-Est Brésilien -état du Ceara. (Lepidoptera). Description d'une espèce et de trois sous-espèces nouvelles. (9 ème note). Lambillionea 108(4): 501–510. Abstract. Reference page.
Trujano-Ortega, M., Callaghan, C.J., García-Vázquez, U.O., Luis-Martínez, A., Ávalos-Hernández, O. & Llorente-Bousquets, J.E. 2020. Emesis planeca n. comb. (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae): a new combination revealed by molecular evidence with a description of its morphological variation. Zootaxa 4853(2): 218–234. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4853.2.4. Paywall. Reference page.
Vargas, J.I. 2017. New species and subspecies of Colombian Riodinidae and description of Alethea, new genus of the tribe Symmachini Bates, 1859 (Lepidoptera). Boletín Científico Centro de Museos Museo de Historia natural 21(1): 199–216. Reference page.
Zhang, J., Shen, J.H., Cong, Q. & Grishin, N.V. 2019. Genomic analysis of the tribe Emesidini (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae). Zootaxa 4668(4): 475–488. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.4.2. Reference page.

Emesis is a Neotropical genus of butterflies.

Species include:[2][3]

Emesis adelpha Le Cerf, 1958
Emesis aerigera (Stichel, 1910)
Emesis angularis Hewitson, 1870
Emesis ares (Edwards, 1882)
Emesis arnacis Stichel, 1928
Emesis aurimna (Boisduval, 1870)
Emesis brimo Godman & Salvin, 1889
Emesis castigata Stichel, 1910
Emesis cerea (Linnaeus, 1767)
Emesis condigna Stichel, 1925
Emesis cypria C. & R. Felder, 1861
Emesis diogenia Prittwitz, 1865
Emesis elegia Stichel, 1929
Emesis emesia (Hewitson, 1867)
Emesis eurydice Godman, 1903
Emesis fatimella Westwood, 1851
Emesis fastidiosa Ménétriés, 1855
Emesis glaucescens Talbot, 1929
Emesis guttata (Stichel, 1910)
Emesis heterochroa Hopffer, 1874
Emesis heteroclita Stichel, 1929
Emesis lacrines Hewitson, 1870
Emesis liodes Godman & Salvin, [1886]
Emesis lucinda (Cramer, [1775])
Emesis lupina Godman & Salvin, [1886]
Emesis mandana (Cramer, [1780])
Emesis neemias Hewitson, 1872
Emesis ocypore (Geyer, 1837)
Emesis orichalceus Stichel, 1916
Emesis poeas Godman, [1901]
Emesis russula Stichel, 1910
Emesis sinuata Hewitson, 1877
Emesis spreta Bates, 1868
Emesis satema (Schaus, 1902)
Emesis saturata Godman & Salvin, [1886]
Emesis tegula Godman & Salvin, [1886]
Emesis temesa (Hewitson, 1870)
Emesis tenedia C. & R. Felder, 1861
Emesis toltec Reakirt, 1866
Emesis vimena Schaus, 1928
Emesis vulpina Godman & Salvin, [1886]
Emesis xanthosa (Stichel, 1910)
Emesis zela Butler, 1870

References

Emesis orichalceus at Learn About Butterflies
Emesis thumbnails. Butterflies of America.
Emesis at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera