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Tetrisia (moth)

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Tetrisia
Tetrisia florigera, Ecuador
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Calpinae
Genus: Tetrisia
Walker, 1867
Species:
T. florigera
Binomial name
Tetrisia 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 lives in Central America and South America, including Costa Rica, Brazil and Colombia.[1][2]

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.[3]

The species Dysschema tricolora (Sulzer, 1776) has been mistakenly listed in the literature under the genus Tetrisia.[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Tetrisia". GBIF. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  2. ^ "Tetrisia Walker, 1867". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ Zaspel, J.M., Branham, M.A. (2008) World Checklist of Tribe Calpini (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Calpinae). Insecta Mundi 0047: 1-15.