Tetrisia florigera Walker 1867
- Dataset
- Mitochondrial genetics of Ophiderini, with a new species from the Eudocima phalonia species group (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Calpinae)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Noctuidae
- genus
- Tetrisia
- species
- Tetrisia florigera
description
(Figs 6: G – H, 18: G, 30: E, 71: E, 72: E, 91: E) This species is unique within the Ophiderini as the only species with an oblique reddish pink hindwing patch conspicuous against a black background. We include specimen records from Venezuela and French Guiana, and a live image from Peru. It has also been recorded from Costa Rica (Schaus 1911 b) and Brazil (Felder & Rogenhofer 1874) in addition to the type locality, Colombia (Walker 1867 b). In 1867 Walker described the genus Tetrisia in two separate publications, one for Hemiptera (Walker 1867 a) and one for Lepidoptera (Walker 1867 b). The Hemiptera genus name was published nearly four months before the Lepidoptera genus. Therefore, a replacement genus name is required for Tetrisia florigera (Waldkircher et al. 2004).
Name
- Homonyms
- Tetrisia florigera Walker 1867