Teliphasa Moore 1888

Genus Teliphasa Moore, 1888 (Pyralidae: Epipaschiinae) Teliphasa Moore, 1888: 200. TS: Teliphasa orbiculifer Moore, 1888 (by original designation).TL: India, Darjiling [Darjeeling]. Currently, the genus Teliphasa comprises 15 species (Nuss et al. 2003 –2025), which are mainly distributed in India (Hampson 1896a; Ranjan et al. 2022), China, Japan, and Korea (Liu et al. 2016), and were also reported for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ghesquière 1942). Of these, eight species have been reported from India (Ranjan et al. 2022; Singh et al. 2022).