The genus Calyptra (Ochsenheimer, 1816) is a group of moths in Subfamily Catocalinae of family Noctuidae. In biology, a genus (plural genera) is a taxonomic grouping. ... A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly. ... ... Catocalinae is a Subfamily of moth family Noctuidae (or alternatively, family Erebidae). ... Scientific classification or biological classification refers to how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Type species Noctua pronuba (Large Yellow Underwing) Diversity 4,200 genera 35,000 species Subfamilies Acontiinae Acronictinae Aganainae Agaristinae Amphipyrinae Amphipyrinae Bagisarinae Bryophilinae Calpinae Catocalinae Cocytiinae Condicinae Cuculliinae Dilobinae Eucocytiinae Eustrotiinae Euteliinae Glottulinae Hadeninae Heliothinae Herminiinae Hypeninae Noctuinae Plusiinae Psaphidinae Raphiinae Stictopterinae Stiriinae Strepsimaninae Ufeinae The Noctuidae are a family...

Some of the species of this genus have been classified with genus name Calpe.

Some species of Calyptra

• Calyptra albivirgata (Hampson, 1926).
• Calyptra bicolor (Moore, 1883).
• Calyptra canadensis (Bethune, 1865), Canadian Owlet Moth.
• Calyptra eustrigata, Vampire moth in Southeast Asia.
• Calyptra fasciata (Moore, 1882).
• Calyptra fletcheri (Berio, 1956).
• Calyptra hokkaida (Wileman, 1922), in Japan.
• Calyptra labilis, Vampire moth, in Thailand.
• Calyptra lata (Butler, 1881), a large light tan colored moth of east Asia [1].
• Calyptra minuticornis (Guenée, 1852), Vampire moth in Thailand and Malaysia.
• Calyptra nyei (Bänziger, 1979).
• Calyptra ophideroides (Guenée, 1852).
• Calyptra orthographa (Butler, 1886), Vampire moth in northern Thailand and northern Laos.
• Calyptra pseudobicolor Bänziger, 1979.
• Calyptra thalictri (Borkhausen, 1790) in Hungary Armenia Kyrghyzstan.

External links

• Moths of genus Calyptra