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Caleta (butterfly)

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Tribe
  
Polyommatini

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Family
  
Lycaenidae

Rank
  
Genus

Caleta (butterfly) httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Lower classifications
  
Caleta caleta, Caleta decidia

Caleta is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae, mainly found in Southeast Asia. The common name Pierrot is used for some species. Caleta was erected by Hans Fruhstorfer in 1922 in Adalbert Seitz's Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde (The Macrolepidoptera of the World).

In his generic classification of the Polyommatini, Toshiya Hirowatari included nine species in Caleta:

  • Caleta argola (Hewitson), [1876]
  • Caleta caleta (Hewitson), [1876]
  • Caleta celebensis (Staudinger), 1889
  • Caleta decidia (Hewitson), [1876]
  • Caleta elna (Hewitson), [1876]
  • Caleta manovus (Fruhstorfer), 1918
  • Caleta mindarus (C. & R. Felder), [1865]
  • Caleta rhode (Hopffer), 1871
  • Caleta roxus (Godart), [1824]

    • Recorded host plants include Ziziphus oenoplia (Rhamnaceae)

    References

    Caleta (butterfly) Wikipedia
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