Tetrisia (moth)

Tetrisia is an invalid genus name for a species of moths in the family Erebidae, containing a single species, T. florigera. It was described by Francis Walker in 1867. It is found in South America, including Costa Rica, Brazil and Colombia.

"Tetrisia" florigera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Erebidae
Subfamily:
Calpinae
Genus:
Tetrisia

Walker, 1867
Binomial name
T. florigera
Walker, 1867
Synonyms
  • Graphigona magnifica Schaus, 1911
  • Graphigona roseifer Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874

Taxonomy

The genus name is a homonym of Tetrisia Walker, 1867, a genus of plataspid bugs, published four months earlier, so the moth name must be formally replaced.[1]

The species Dysschema tricolora (Sulzer, 1776) has been mistakenly listed in the literature under the genus Tetrisia.[2]

References
  1. Waldkircher, G., Webb, M. D., & Maschwitz, U. (2004). Description of a new shieldbug (Heteroptera: Plataspidae) and its close association with a species of ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Southeast Asia, Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 147(1), 21-28. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/22119434-900000133
  2. Zaspel, J.M., Branham, M.A. (2008) World Checklist of Tribe Calpini (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Calpinae). Insecta Mundi 0047: 1-15.


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