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Emmelia apatelia (Swinhoe, 1907)

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Higher taxa:	Noctuidae (family)/ Acontiinae (subfamily)/ Acontiini (tribe)/ Emmelia (genus)/ Emmelia (subgenus)/
Status:	Accepted
Authorship:	(Swinhoe, 1907)
Citation:	Tarache apatelia, nov.
Original genus:	Tarache
Publication:	Swinhoe C. 1907a. New eastern, Australian, and African Heterocera.
Journal:	Annals and Magazine of Natural History
Volume:	(7) 19
Issue:	109
Pagination:	53–54
URL:	https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24254513

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Emmelia apatelia (1)

Scientific name	TypeStatus	Gender	Museum	Description	Country	Locality	Publication	URL
Emmelia apatelia (Swinhoe, 1907)	Holotype	♀	NHMUK	Holotype ♀, NHMUK.	Angola	Angola, W Africa, Bihé [Cuito].

Scientific name	Country	Province	Publication	URL
Emmelia apatelia (Swinhoe, 1907)	Angola		Swinhoe C. 1907a. New eastern, Australian, and African Heterocera. page 54
Emmelia apatelia (Swinhoe, 1907)	Cameroon		Hacker H. H., Legrain A. & Fibiger M. 2008. Revision of the genus Acontia Ochsenheimer, 1816 and the tribus Acontiini Guenée, 1841 (Old World) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Acontiinae). page 114
Emmelia apatelia (Swinhoe, 1907)	Ethiopia		Berio E. 1944. Missione biologica Sagan-Omo diretta dal Prof. E. Zavattari. Lepidoptera Agaristidae e Noctuidae. page 78
Emmelia apatelia (Swinhoe, 1907)	Kenya		Hampson G. F. 1910e. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the collection of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.). X. Noctuidae. page 744
Emmelia apatelia (Swinhoe, 1907)	Somalia		Berio E. 1985b. I nottuidi raccolti in Somalia del Prof. Simonetta nel 1978–79, con descrizione di nuovi taxa. page 18
Emmelia apatelia (Swinhoe, 1907)	Sudan		Wiltshire E. P. 1973. Middle East Lepidoptera: XXXI. A new Clytie species, a new Metophonrhis subspecies, and other noctuid records from the Sudan. page 43

Plant note:

Description of the larva in A. L. H. Townsend (1942: 212–213).

Townsend A. L. H. 1942. Further notes (No. 3) on the early stages of Heterocera bred in the Nakuru District.

Scientific name	Plant	Plant Family	Country	Publication	URL
Emmelia apatelia (Swinhoe, 1907)	Gossypium sp.	Malvaceae		Sevastopulo D. G. 1976. A list of the food plants of East African Macrolepidoptera. Part 2. Moths (Heterocera). page 188
Emmelia apatelia (Swinhoe, 1907)	Indigofera sp.	Fabaceae	Kenya	Townsend A. L. H. 1942. Further notes (No. 3) on the early stages of Heterocera bred in the Nakuru District. page 212 (as Indigophora)

Scientific name	Parasitoid	Parasitoid Family	Country	Publication	URL

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