{{Short description|Tribe of moths}} {{Automatic taxobox |image=Calyptra thalictri 01.jpg | image_caption =Calyptra thalictri |taxon= Calpini |authority= Boisduval, 1840 }}
The '''Calpini''' are a tribe of fruit-piercing moths in the family Erebidae; formerly they were included in the family Noctuidae.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Zaspel |first1= J.M. |last2=Branham |first2= M.A. |title=World checklist of tribe Calpini (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Calpinae)|journal=Insecta Mundi |date=2008 |edition=September 26th |pages=1–15 |url=http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1574&context=insectamundi |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141220123854/http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1574&context=insectamundi |archive-date=20 December 2014 |access-date=11 April 2015 }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/mcguire/research/taxonomy |title=Blood-feeding and Fruit-feeding Moths of Calpini Tribe (Noctuidae), Their Phylogeny and Classification |publisher=Florida Museum of Natural History |access-date=11 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150411142114/http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/mcguire/research/taxonomy |archive-date=11 April 2015}}</ref>
==Genera== * ''Africalpe'' <small>Krüger, 1939</small> * ''Calyptra'' <small>Ochsenheimer, 1816</small> * ''Ferenta'' <small>Walker, [1858]</small> * ''Gonodonta'' <small>Hübner, 1818</small> * ''Graphigona'' <small>Walker, [1858]</small> * ''Oraesia'' <small>Guenée, In Boisduval and Guenée, 1852b</small> * ''Plusiodonta'' <small>Guenée, In Boisduval and Guenée, 1852b</small> * ''Tetrisia'' <small>Walker, 1867</small>
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