Calyptra (genus)
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The genus Calyptra is a group of moths in subfamily Calpinae of the family Noctuidae. They are a member of the Calpini tribe. whose precise circumscription is uncertain but includes a number of other fruit-piercing or eye-frequenting genera currently classified in the subfamily Calpinae [1].

The common name of many of these species, vampire moth, refers to the habit that they have of drinking blood from vertebrates. According to a recent study some of them (Calyptra thalictri) are even capable of drinking human blood through skin [2]

Some species of this genus have been classified with genus name Calpe and they include more than one blood-sucker.

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 [3].
• 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. This species have been spotted as far north as central Finland and central Sweden.

External links

• Moths of genus Calyptra

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