A uniquely patterned new species of Emesis from Honduras (Riodinidae)

Emesis eleanorae Gallardo & Grishin n. sp. is described from western Honduras. It differs from other species of Emesis Fabricius, 1807 in having a row of prominent iron-gray crescent-shaped postdiscal spots on both wings above, outlined by paler areas basad and mirrored as merlot-colored spots below, with the largest by the forewing costa, and in its females being bright golden-orange in color. Genomic sequence analysis of Emesis reveals that the new species belongs to the subgenus Aphacitis Hübner, [1819] and is sister to the clade containing Emesis diogenia Prittwitz, 1865 and Emesis heteroclita Stichel, 1929, and the clade of these three species is sister to Emesis vulpina Godman & Salvin, 1886.