Calpini

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Kingdom Animalia Family Erebidae Scientific name Calpini Higher classification Calpinae Order Butterflies and moths		Superfamily Noctuoidea Subfamily Calpinae Phylum Arthropoda Rank Tribe
Similar Calpinae, Butterflies and moths, Insect, Gonodonta, Erebidae

The Calpini are a tribe of fruit-piercing moths in the family Erebidae; formerly they were included in the family Noctuidae. The proboscis of the adult moths of this tribe is pointed and barbed, allowing the moth to pierce the skin of fruit to drink the juice. The vampire moths in the Calyptra genus can pierce mammal skin to drink blood.

Genera

Africalpe Krüger, 1939

Calyptra Ochsenheimer, 1816

Ferenta Walker, [1858]

Gonodonta Hübner, 1818

Graphigona Walker, [1858]

Oraesia Guenée, In Boisduval and Guenée, 1852b

Plusiodonta Guenée, In Boisduval and Guenée, 1852b

Tetrisia Walker, 1867

References

Calpini Wikipedia

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