Calinaga

Calinaga is the sole genus of the monotypic nymphalid butterfly subfamily Calinaginae. Its species occur in South Asia and Southeast Asia. The evolutionary history of Calinaga remains a mystery until today. Recent research indicated that the common ancestor of Calinaga first split in the Eocene in southern China. This was most likely due to a consequence of geological and environmental impacts of the collision of the Indian and Asian subcontinents.^[1]

Calinaga
Calinaga buddha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Calinaginae Moore, 1895
Genus:	Calinaga Moore, 1857
Species
See text

Classification

• Calinaga aborica Tytler, 1915 – Abor freak
• Calinaga buddha Moore, 1857 – freak
• Calinaga buphonas Oberthür, 1920
• Calinaga cercyon de Nicéville
• Calinaga davidis Oberthür
• Calinaga funebris Oberthür, 1919
• Calinaga funeralis Monastyrskii & Devyatkin, 2000
• Calinaga genestieri Oberthür, 1922
• Calinaga gautama Moore, 1896 – Sikkim freak
• Calinaga lhatso Oberthür, 1893
• Calinaga sudassana Melville, 1893