# Calpini

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{{Short description|Tribe of moths}}
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|image=Calyptra thalictri 01.jpg
| image_caption =Calyptra thalictri 
|taxon= Calpini
|authority= Boisduval, 1840
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The '''Calpini''' are a [tribe](/source/tribe_(biology)) of fruit-piercing [moth](/source/moth)s in the family [Erebidae](/source/Erebidae); formerly they were included in the family [Noctuidae](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Calyptra_(moth))'' 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](/source/Africalpe)'' <small>Krüger, 1939</small>
* ''[Calyptra](/source/Calyptra_(moth))'' <small>Ochsenheimer, 1816</small>
* ''[Ferenta](/source/Ferenta)'' <small>Walker, [1858]</small>
* ''[Gonodonta](/source/Gonodonta)'' <small>Hübner, 1818</small>
* ''[Graphigona](/source/Graphigona)'' <small>Walker, [1858]</small>
* ''[Oraesia](/source/Oraesia)'' <small>Guenée, In Boisduval and Guenée, 1852b</small>
* ''[Plusiodonta](/source/Plusiodonta)'' <small>Guenée, In Boisduval and Guenée, 1852b</small>
* ''[Tetrisia](/source/Tetrisia_(moth))'' <small>Walker, 1867</small>

==Notes==
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==References==
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Category:Calpinae
Category:Calpini
Category:Moth tribes

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