Jemadia is a Neotropical genus of firetips in the family Hesperiidae.
A genus of robust butterflies where it can be difficult to distinguish between the various species due to the strong resemblance between members of different lineage. There are two general forms of body markings, one exhibiting four white dots on their prothorax, the other with a white transverse streak instead, according to Mabille's division of them into "punctati" and "lineati". In general Jemadia have 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.Max Wilhelm Karl Draudt, 1924 Hesperiidae in Seitz. Macrolepidoptera of the world. Vol.5. The American Rhopalocera. Stuttgart. vii, + 1139 pp., 203 pl.
List of species Jemadia albescens Röber, 1925 - Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia Jemadia demarmelsi Orellana, 2010 - Demarmels' skipper - Venezuela Jemadia gnetus (Fabricius, 1781) - gnetus skipper - Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil Jemadia gnetus gnetus (Fabricius, 1781) Guyanas, etc. (as above) Jemadia gnetus brevipennis Schaus, 1902 - brevipennis skipper - Brazil, Paraguay Jemadia gnetus mineira (O. Mielke, C. Mielke & Casagrande, 2022) - Brazil Jemadia hewitsonii (Mabille, 1878) - Hewitson's skipper - Brazil (Amazonas) Jemadia hewitsonii hewitsonii (Mabille, 1878) - French Guiana, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru (Note, see former Jemadia hewitsonii ovid Evans, 1951, or Jemadia hewitsonii albescens Röber, 1925) Jemadia hospita (Butler, 1877) - hospita skipper - Peru Jemadia hospita hospita (A. Butler, 1877) - Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, west Brazil Jemadia hospita imitator (Mabille, 1891) - Colombia Jemadia hospita hephaestos (Plötz, 1879) - Suriname Jemadia mabillei O. Mielke, Brockmann & C. Mielke, 2022 - Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, etc. Jemadia menechmus (Mabille, 1878) - Menechmus skipper - Venezuela to Brazil Jemadia menechmus desousai Orellana, 2010 - Venezuela Jemadia menechmus menechmus (Mabille, 1878) - Suriname, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil Jemadia ovid Evans, 1951 - ovid Skipper - Colombia, Ecuador Jemadia pater Evans, 1951 - pater skipper - Panama, Colombia, Venezuela Jemadia pseudognetus (Mabille, 1878) - dot-collared skipper - Mexico to Venezuela and Brazil Jemadia pseudognetus pseudognetus (Mabille, 1878) - Mexico to Venezuela and Brazil Jemadia pseudognetus imitator (Mabille, 1891) - Colombia Jemadia scomber Druce, 1908 - mammoth skipper - Peru Jemadia sosia (Mabille, 1878) - sosia skipper - Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia Jemadia suekentonmiller Grishin, 2014 - speciesex Skipper - Costa Rica & Panama
Else: See Mimoniades fallax (Mabille, 1878) for: Jemadia fallax (Mabille, 1878) - fallax skipper - Brazil Jemadia fallax fallax (Mabille, 1878) - Guianas, Brazil Jemadia fallax fiska Evans, 1951 - Colombia Jemadia fallax fida Evans, 1951 - Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia Jemadia fallax solaris Hayward, 1942 - Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia
References
Funet Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
External links
images representing Jemadia at Consortium for the Barcode of Life