Taxonomic Information
Calyptra Ochsenheimer, 1816 species known from the Indian subcontinent based on Zaspel & Branham (2008) and Joshi et al. (2025).
Calyptra bicolor (Moore, 1883) (Calpe). India: Punjab, Himachal Pradesh; Nepal.
Calyptra eustrigata (Hampson, 1926) (Calpe). India; Sri Lanka.
Calyptra fasciata (Moore, 1882) (Calpe). India: West Bengal (TL: Darjeeling), Sikkim; Nepal; Myanmar.
Calyptra fletcheri (Berio, 1956) (Calpe). India; Nepal.
Calyptra minuticornis (Guenée, 1852). (Calpe). India: Assam; Sri Lanka; Nepal.
Calyptra nyei Bänziger, 1979. India: Naga Hills (TL).
Calyptra ophideroides (Guenée, 1852). India: Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand; Nepal.
Calyptra orthograpta (Butler, 1886). (Calpe). India: Sikkim, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh; Nepal.
Calyptra imperalis (Grünberg, 1910). India.
Calyptra parva Bänziger, 1979. India: Naga Hills (TL), Kerala.
Calyptra pseudobicolor Bänziger, 1979. India: Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
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- Calpe orthograpta Butler, 1886; Ill. typical Spec. Lep. Het. Colln Br. Mus. 6: 25, pl. 107, f. 2; TL: Darjeeling. Text at https://archive.org/details/illustrationsoft06brituoft/page/25/mode/1up. Plate at https://archive.org/details/illustrationsoft06brituoft/page/n124/mode/1up
- Haruta, T. (Ed.). 1994. Moths of Nepal. Part 3. TINEA. Vol. 14 (Supplement 1). The Japan Heterocerists’ Society, Tokyo. Pl. 89//3.
- Kononenko, V. S. & A. Pinratana. 2005. Moths of Thailand, Volume 3: Noctuidae. An Illustrated Catalogue of the Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) in Thailand: Part 1: Herminiinae, Rivulinae, Hypeninae, Catocalinae, Aganainae, Euteliinae, Stictopterinae, Plusiinae, Pantheinae, Acronictinae and Agaristinae. Brothers of St. Gabriel in Thailand, Bangkok. 261 pp. + 45 pls. , pg. 28, Pl. 3/21.
- Sondhi, S. Karmakar, T., Sondhi, Y. & K. Kunte. 2021. Moths of Tale Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, India with seventeen additions to the moth fauna of India (Lepidoptera: Heterocera). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 31(Supplement 2): 1-53. Image 172.
- Sondhi, S. 2024. Moths of India - A Field Guide. Published by Titli Trust, India, xii+280 pp. Pg. 154, Pl. 74/11.
- Bashir, A., Cui, Y., Dong, Y. and Yang, Z., 2025. Taxonomic Revision of Vampire Moths of the Genus Calyptra (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Calpinae) in Chinese Fauna. Insects, 16(5), p.534. Fig. 2/F-G.
- https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/714852-Calyptra-orthograpta
- http://v3.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=127127
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Calyptra orthograpta (Butler, 1886) – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.12. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/calyptra-orthograpta, accessed 2025/11/22.