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 lives in Central America and South America, including Costa Rica, Brazil and Colombia.^[1][2]

Tetrisia
Tetrisia florigera, Ecuador
Scientific classification
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

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]