Hodges (1974) described genus Dafa for formosella and noted that Epicallima is an invalid replacement name for Callima. It must be noted that no explanation for moving formosella back to Epicallima or retaining the Epicallima name has been found in the literature afterward. But much recent literature on the Eurasian Oecophorid fauna continues using Epicallima instead of Callima and maintains formosella in Epicallima rather than Dafa.
Pohl & Landry in Pohl & Nanz 2023 and Moth Photographers Group have reviewed the taxonomy and reiterated the conclusion of Hodges that formosella belongs in Dafa. BugGuide follows these sources. And so formosella is moved back to Dafa as its latest placement.
Unintended disagreements occur when a parent (B) is
thinned by swapping a child (E) to another part of the
taxonomic tree, resulting in existing IDs of the parent being interpreted
as disagreements with existing IDs of the swapped child.
Identification
ID 2 of taxon E will be an unintended disagreement with ID 1 of taxon B after the taxon swap
If thinning a parent results in more than 10 unintended disagreements, you
should split the parent after swapping the child to replace existing IDs
of the parent (B) with IDs that don't disagree.
