Caleta (butterfly)
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| Angled Pierrot (Caleta caleta) in Talakona forest, Andhra Pradesh, India | |
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| Genus: | Caleta
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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)
External links
Wikispecies has information related to Caleta.
- Caleta at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera
- Images representing Caleta at BOLD