Calpini

The Calpini are a tribe of fruit-piercing moths in the family Erebidae; formerly they were included in the family Noctuidae.^[1] 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 genus Calyptra can pierce mammal skin to drink blood.^[2]

Calpini
Calyptra thalictri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Calpinae
Tribe:	Calpini Boisduval, 1840

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

Notes