Genus Risoba Moore, 1881

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• Risoba Moore, F. 1881. Descriptions of new genera and species of Asiatic nocturnal Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1881: 326-380, 2 pls [328].

  Type species:

   Thyatira repugnans Walker, 1856 by original designation (India).
• Pitrasa Moore, F. in Hewitson, W.C. & Moore, F. 1882. Descriptions of new Indian Lepidopterous Insects from the collection of the late W.S. Atkinson. Part ii. Heterocera, continued (Cymatophoridae-Herminiidae). Calcutta : Asiatic Society of Bengal 89-198, pls iv, v. [94].

  Type species:

   Pitrasa variegata Moore, 1882 by subsequent designation, see Hampson, G.F. 1912. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Noctuidae in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 11 xvii 689 pp. [424] (India: [W. Bengal], Darjiling).
• Lycoselene Möschler, H.B. 1887. Beiträge zur schmetterlings-fauna der Goldküste. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 15: 49-100 [87].

  Type species:

   Lycoselene lunata Möschler, 1887 by monotypy ([Ghana]: Gold Coast: Aburi).
• Risola Warren, W. 1913 [1913-1914]. Subfamilie Sarrothripinae. pp. 289-301 in Seitz, A. Die Gross Schmetterlinge der Erde. Stuttgart : Alfred Kernen Vol.3 (German Edition), pp.1-511. [293] [subsequent misspelling; the name was correctly spelt in the English edition of Seitz].

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