{{Short description|Genus of leaf beetles}} {{More citations needed|date=February 2026}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Callipta | display_parents = 2 | authority = Lefèvre, 1885<ref name="Lefevre1885">{{cite journal|last=Lefèvre|first=E.|year=1885|title=[''Callipta'']|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10172100|journal=Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France|series=6|volume=5|issue=2|pages=CXXIV–CXXV}}</ref> | type_species = ''Calliope fausti'' | type_species_authority = Weise, 1882 | synonyms = * ''Calliope'' <small>Weise, 1882<br />(preoccupied)</small> * ''Arachnipta'' <small>Medvedev, 1957</small> }}
'''''Callipta''''' is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It contains four species, which are distributed in the Caucasus, Central to East Asia and North Africa.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Moseyko|first1=A. G.|last2=Sprecher-Uebersax|first2=E.|year=2010|chapter=Eumolpinae|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qt8zDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA620|editor-last1=Löbl|editor-first1=I.|editor-last2=Smetana|editor-first2=A.|title=Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea|location=Stenstrup, Denmark|publisher=Apollo Books|pages=619–643|isbn=978-87-88757-84-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Callipta|url=http://www.chrysomelidae.it/afr_Eum/genere_Callipta.html|website=African Eumolpinae site|access-date=22 July 2018}}</ref> The genus was originally named ''Calliope'' by Julius Weise in 1882; however, as Édouard Lefèvre pointed out, the name "Calliope" had been used a number of times for genera described previously (for instance, the passerine bird genus ''Calliope'' <small>Gould, 1836</small>), so it was renamed to ''Callipta'' by Lefèvre in 1885.<ref name="Lefevre1885"/>
==Species== * ''Callipta borealis'' <small>Lopatin, 1976</small> – Uzbekistan, China (Xinjiang) * ''Callipta fausti'' <small>(Weise, 1882)</small> ** ''Callipta fausti badghyza'' <small>Lopatin, 1997</small><ref name="Lopatin1997">{{cite journal|last=Lopatin|first=I. K.|year=1997|title=On the Genus ''Callipta'' (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)|journal=Entomological Review|volume=77|issue=1|pages=122–126}}</ref> – Turkmenistan (South Turkmenistan: Badkhyz) ** ''Callipta fausti balchana'' <small>Lopatin, 1997</small><ref name="Lopatin1997"/> – Turkmenistan (West Turkmenistan) ** ''Callipta fausti fausti'' <small>(Weise, 1882)</small> – Azerbaijan, southern European Russia ** ''Callipta fausti murgabica'' <small>Lopatin, 1997</small><ref name="Lopatin1997"/> – Turkmenistan (South Turkmenistan: Murgab River) ** ''Callipta fausti palvanica'' <small>Lopatin, 1997</small><ref name="Lopatin1997"/> – Turkmenistan (North Turkmenistan: Kaplankyr) ** ''Callipta fausti turcomana'' <small>Medvedev, 1957</small> – Turkmenistan (Kopet-Dag mountain ridge) * ''Callipta iranica'' <small>Lopatin, 1997</small><ref name="Lopatin1997"/> – Iran * ''Callipta oberthuri'' <small>(Fairmaire, 1876)</small><ref>{{cite journal|last=Fairmaire|first=L.|year=1876|title=Description de Coléoptères nouveaux du nord de l'Afrique|journal=Petites Nouvelles Entomologiques|volume=2|page=98|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12392642|access-date=26 February 2026}}</ref> – Algeria, Tunesia
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Category:Eumolpinae Category:Callipta Category:Chrysomelidae genera Category:Beetles of North Africa Category:Beetles of Asia Category:Taxa named by Édouard Lefèvre
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