Tetrisia

Tetrisia
Scientific 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;

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[edit]

Tetrisia bruchoides Walker, 1867
Tetrisia vacca Webb, 2004

References[edit]

^ 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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[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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