{{Short description|Genus of moths}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Metaemene | image = Metaemene hampsoni.jpg | image_caption = ''Metaemene hampsoni'' | authority = Hampson, 1910 }}
'''''Metaemene''''' is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by George Hampson in 1910.<ref>{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |date=July 5, 2019 |url=https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/erebidae/boletobiinae/metaemene/ |title=''Metaemene'' Hampson, 1910 |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=November 18, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{LepIndex |id=272155 |accessdate=October 8, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Pitkin |first1=Brian |last2=Jenkins |first2=Paul |name-list-style=amp |date=November 5, 2004 |url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=17775.0 |title=''Metaemene'' Hampson, 1910 |website=Butterflies and Moths of the World |publisher=Natural History Museum, London |accessdate=October 8, 2020}}</ref>
==Taxonomy== The genus has previously been classified in the subfamily Acontiinae of the family Noctuidae.<ref name="Z+2011">{{cite journal|last1=Zahiri|first1=Reza|title=Molecular phylogenetics of Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea)|journal=Systematic Entomology|date=2011|doi=10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00607.x|display-authors=etal|doi-access=free}}</ref>
==Species== *''Metaemene atrigutta'' <small>(Walker, 1862)</small> *''Metaemene atropunctata'' <small>(Pagenstecher, 1896)</small> *''Metaemene baliochraspedus'' <small>Rothschild, 1920</small> *''Metaemene hampsoni'' <small>Wileman, 1914</small> *''Metaemene karenkonis'' <small>(Matsumura, 1930)</small>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{cite web |last=Yu |first=Dicky Sick Ki |url=http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=85986157 |title=''Metaemene'' Hampson 1910 |website=Home of Ichneumonoidea |publisher=Taxapad |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304072913/http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=85986157 |archive-date=March 4, 2016}}
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Category:Boletobiinae Category:Noctuoidea genera Category:Taxa named by George Hampson
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