Taxon remarks: | Type species: Tipasa basaliella Walker, 1864. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXIX.– Tineites: 805. By monotypy. A junior homonym of Tipasa Walker, 1863, ibidem 27: 129 [Noctuidae]. The subjective replacement name is Frisilia Walker, 1864 (see Sattler 1973, Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 28: 261 who placed T. basaliella as a junior subjective synonym of Frisilia nesciatella Walker, 1864, the type-species of Frisilia Walker, 1864). |