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, containing a single species, ''T. florigera''. It was described by Francis Walker in 1867. It is found in

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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. The species '' Dysschema tricolora'' (Sulzer, 1776) has been mistakenly listed in the literature under the genus ''Tetrisia''.Zaspel, J.M., Branham, M.A. (2008) World Checklist of Tribe Calpini (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Calpinae). Insecta Mundi 0047: 1-15.

References

Calpinae Monotypic moth genera Moths described in 1867 Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist) {{Calpinae-stub