Tetrisia florigera Walker, 1867

Borth, Robert J. & Kons, Hugo L., 2022, Mitochondrial genetics of Ophiderini, with a new species from the Eudocima phalonia species group (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Calpinae), Zootaxa 5148 (1), pp. 1-151 : 25

Tetrisia florigera Walker, 1867

( 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 1911b) and Brazil ( Felder & Rogenhofer 1874) in addition to the type locality, Colombia ( Walker 1867b).

In 1867 Walker described the genus Tetrisia in two separate publications, one for Hemiptera ( Walker 1867a) and one for Lepidoptera ( Walker 1867b) . 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) .

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FIGURE 6. Neotropical Eudocima, Tetrisia, and Graphigona adults (dorsal aspect).