Butterflies and Moths of the World Generic Names and their Type-species

Genus:
Emarginea Guenée, 1852 , in Boisduval & Guenée. Hist. nat. Insectes (Lépid.) 6 : 288.

Status:
Available Name

Homonyms: 1

Higher classification:
NOCTUOIDEA : NOCTUIDAE : HADENINAE

Type-species:
Emarginea gammophora Guenée , 1852 , in Boisduval & Guenée Hist. nat. Insectes (Lépid.) 6 : 289, pl. 14, fig. 1. .

Type-species designation:
by monotypy

Type specimens:
Lectotype - male, [URUGUAY]: Montevideo, (MNHN, Paris).

Lectotype Desig. by:Viette, 1951, Bull. mens. Soc. linn. Lyon 20: 161

Notes:
Poole (1989) included EMARGINEA in the subfamily AMPHIPYRINAE, subsequently restricted to the genus AMPHIPYRA by Kitching & Rawlins, in Kristensen (1999). Other genera formerly treated in the subfamily AMPHIPYRINAE are treated as HADENINAE by Kitching & Rawlins (1999).

Poole (1989) included DACIRA Walker, 1858; and CYATHISSA Grote, 1881 as junior synonyms of EMARGINEA Guenée, 1852.

Poole (1989) included 11 species in the genus EMARGINEA.