| Higher taxa: |
Crambidae (family)/
Spilomelinae (subfamily)/
Margaroniini (tribe)/
Telespasta (genus)/
|
| Status: | Synonym
, the accepted name is Pygospila
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| Authorship: | Swinhoe, 1906 |
| Citation: | Genus Telespasta, nov. |
| Taxon remarks: | Type species: Pygospila cuprealis Swinhoe, 1892. Transactions of the Royal entomological Society of London 1892: 19; pl. 1, fig. 4. By original designation. |
| Publication: | Swinhoe C. 1906a. New and little-known species of Heterocera from the East. |
| Journal: | Annals and Magazine of Natural History |
| Volume: | (7) 17 |
| Issue: | 99 |
| Pagination: | 294–295 |
| URL: | https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19245512 |