Tetrisia

Tetrisia is a genus of shield bugs belonging to the family Plataspidae. The same genus name was published as a new moth genus, Tetrisia, four months later by the same author, making the latter an invalid junior homonym, in need of formal replacement.[1]

Tetrisia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Infraorder: Pentatomomorpha
Superfamily: Pentatomoidea
Family: Plataspidae
Genus: Tetrisia
Walker, 1867
Synonyms
  • Dolichisme Kirkaldy, 1904

Species
  • Tetrisia bruchoides Walker, 1867
  • Tetrisia vacca Webb, 2004

References
  1. 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


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