Tetrisia (moth)

"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;

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.

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[]

^ 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
^ Zaspel, J.M., Branham, M.A. (2008) World Checklist of Tribe Calpini (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Calpinae). Insecta Mundi 0047: 1-15.

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[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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