''Emmelina'' is a genus of
moth
Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...
s in the family
Pterophoridae
The Pterophoridae or plume moths are a family of Lepidoptera with unusually modified wings, giving them the shape of a narrow winged airplane. Though they belong to the Apoditrysia like the larger moths and the butterflies, unlike these they are ...
with a nearly cosmopolitan distribution.
Ecology
The species seem to be
polyphagous
Feeding is the process by which organisms, typically animals, obtain food. Terminology often uses either the suffixes -vore, -vory, or -vorous from Latin ''vorare'', meaning "to devour", or -phage, -phagy, or -phagous from Greek φαγε ...
, but representatives of the genera ''
'' and ''
Calystegia
''Calystegia'' (bindweed, false bindweed, or morning glory) is a genus of about 25 species of flowering plants in the bindweed family Convolvulaceae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution in temperate and subtropical regions, but with half of ...
'' are preferred.
Species
, the Catalogue of the Pterophoroidea of the World lists the following species for genus ''Emmelina'':
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Emmelina aethes''
(Walsingham, 1915)
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Emmelina amseli''
(Bigot, 1969)
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Emmelina argoteles''
(Meyrick, 1922)
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Emmelina bigoti''
Gibeaux, 1990
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Emmelina buscki''
(Barnes & Lindsey, 1921)
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Emmelina compactus
''Emmelina'' is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae with a nearly cosmopolitan distribution.
Ecology
The species seem to be polyphagous, but representatives of the genera ''Convolvulus'' and ''Calystegia'' are preferred.
Species
, the ...
''
Gielis, 2016
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Emmelina devriesi
''Emmelina'' is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae with a nearly cosmopolitan distribution.
Ecology
The species seem to be polyphagous, but representatives of the genera ''Convolvulus'' and '' Calystegia'' are preferred.
Species
, the ...
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(Landry & Gielis, 1992)
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Emmelina doroshkini
''Emmelina'' is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae with a nearly cosmopolitan distribution.
Ecology
The species seem to be polyphagous, but representatives of the genera ''Convolvulus'' and '' Calystegia'' are preferred.
Species
, the ...
''
Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2021
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Emmelina glochinias
''Emmelina'' is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae with a nearly cosmopolitan distribution.
Ecology
The species seem to be polyphagous, but representatives of the genera ''Convolvulus'' and '' Calystegia'' are preferred.
Species
, the ...
''
(Meyrick, 1908)
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Emmelina inna
''Emmelina'' is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae with a nearly cosmopolitan distribution.
Ecology
The species seem to be polyphagous, but representatives of the genera ''Convolvulus'' and '' Calystegia'' are preferred.
Species
, the ...
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Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2022
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Emmelina jason
''Emmelina jason'' is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fift ...
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(Meyrick, 1930)
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Emmelina lochmaius
''Emmelina lochmaius'' is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is known from Gabon
Gabon ( ; ), officially the Gabonese Republic (), is a country on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, on the equator, bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the ...
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(Bigot, 1974)
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Emmelina monodactyla
''Emmelina monodactyla'' (also known as the T-moth or morning-glory plume moth) is a moth of the family Pterophoridae found in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758.
Description
The moths fly n ...
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(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
, 1758
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the starting point of modern zoologic ...
)
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Emmelina paradevriesi
''Emmelina'' is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae with a nearly cosmopolitan distribution.
Ecology
The species seem to be polyphagous, but representatives of the genera ''Convolvulus'' and '' Calystegia'' are preferred.
Species
, the ...
''
Gielis, 2016
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Emmelina reshetnikovi
''Emmelina'' is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae with a nearly cosmopolitan distribution.
Ecology
The species seem to be polyphagous, but representatives of the genera ''Convolvulus'' and '' Calystegia'' are preferred.
Species
, the ...
''
Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2021
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Emmelina suspiciosus
''Emmelina suspiciosus'' is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Ecuador
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, ...
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(Meyrick, 1921)
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Emmelina vera
''Emmelina'' is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae with a nearly cosmopolitan distribution.
Ecology
The species seem to be polyphagous, but representatives of the genera ''Convolvulus'' and '' Calystegia'' are preferred.
Species
, the ...
''
Ustjuzhanin & Kovtunovich, 2022
References
Oidaematophorini
Taxa named by J. W. Tutt
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