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Butterflies and moths, Pyrrhopyge, Firetips, Mimoniades, Pyrrhopyginae |
Jemadia is a Neotropical genus of firetips in the family Hesperiidae.
A very comprehensive genus, in which it is rather difficult to define the species owing to the extraordinary resemblance among one another. Moreover, there are two series parallel to each other, one of which shows four white dots on the prothorax, the other exhibiting a white transverse streak instead. In order to facilitate the definition we keep to Mabille's division of the groups into "punctati" and "lineati". The Jemadia are robust insects with white or blue marking and hyaline (glass-like) spots. The hindwings are often remarkably small, in the males often with tooth-like projections on the inner-marginal and lower median vein, above them mostly with a deeply concave excision, and between the upper radial and subcostal vein often with an obtuse projection; more rarely the hindwings are quite round. The middle radial vein is absent, the lower one comes from the lower cell-angle, the upper median vein below it separately.
Jemadia fallax (Mabille, 1878) - fallax skipper - type locality BrazilJemadia fallax fallax (Mabille, 1878) Guianas, north BrazilJemadia fallax fiska Evans, 1951 ColombiaJemadia fallax fida Evans, 1951 Ecuador, Peru, BoliviaJemadia fallax solaris Hayward, 1942 Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, north Brazil, east Peru, BoliviaJemadia gnetus (Fabricius, 1781) - gnetus skipper - Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, south BrazilJemadia brevipennis Schaus, 1902 - brevipennis skipper - Brazil, ParaguayJemadia hospita (Butler, 1877) - hospita skipper - type locality PeruJemadia hospita hospita (A. Butler, 1877) south Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, west BrazilJemadia hospita imitator (Mabille, 1891) ColombiaJemadia hospita hephaestos (Plötz, 1879) SurinameJemadia pseudognetus (Mabille, 1878) - dot-collared skipper - southeast Mexico to Venezuela and upper AmazonJemadia hewitsonii (Mabille, 1878) - Hewitson's skipper - type locality Brazil (Amazonas)Jemadia hewitsonii hewitsonii (Mabille, 1878) French Guiana, Venezuela (Amazonas, Bolivar), north Brazil, PeruJemadia hewitsonii ovid Evans, 1951 Colombia, EcuadorJemadia hewitsonii albescens Röber, 1925 Ecuador, Peru, BoliviaJemadia menechmus (Mabille, 1878) - Menechmus skipperJemadia menechmus menechmus (Mabille, 1878) Suriname, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, north and west BrazilJemadia menechmus desousai Orellana, [2010] Venezuela (Amazonas)Jemadia pater Evans, 1951 - pater skipper - Panama, Colombia, VenezuelaJemadia scomber Druce, 1908 - mammoth skipper - PeruJemadia sosia (Mabille, 1878) - sosia skipper - southwest Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, BoliviaJemadia demarmelsi Orellana, [2010] - Demarmels' skipper - VenezuelaJemadia Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA