Emesis (butterfly)

Emesis
E. cerea
Female E. lucinda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Riodinidae
Subfamily:	Riodininae
Genus:	Emesis Fabricius, 1807
Species
41, see text
Synonyms
Aphacitis Hübner, [1819] Polystichtis Hübner, [1819] Tapina Billberg, 1820 Nimula Blanchard, 1840 Polystichthis Agassiz, 1846 Nelone Boisduval, 1870

Emesis is a Neotropical genus of butterflies.

Species include:

• 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