Tetrisia Explained

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]

Species

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

Notes and 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