Calesia

Calesia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Erebidae
Genus:	Calesia; Guenée, 1852
Synonyms
	Asymbata Gerstaecker, 1871; Caradana Moore, 1884; Lecasia Fawcett, 1916; Mecyra Walker, 1865; Pasipeda Walker, 1858; Zirona Walker, 1869;

Calesia is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Achille Guenée in 1852.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Description[]

Palpi upturned and smoothly scaled, where the second joint reaching vertex of head. Third joint long and naked. Antennae ciliated and with bristles to the joints in male. Thorax, abdomen and legs smoothly scaled. Hindwings with very short cell. Larva with two pairs of abdominal prolegs.^[4]

Species[]

Hampson 1910
Carcasson 1965
Carcasson 1965
Calesia dasypterus (Kollar 1844)
Calesia flabellifera Moore 1878
Hampson 1926
Calesia fuscicorpus Hampson 1891
Guenée 1852
Calesia haemorrhoa Guenée 1852
Hampson 1926
(Bartel 1903)
(Walker 1869)
Hampson 1926
Aurivillius 1909
(Fawcett 1916)
Felder & Rogenhofer 1874
(Hampson 1891)
Hampson 1895
Hampson 1926
Hampson 1894
Calesia rufipalpis (Walker 1858)
Snellen 1880
Calesia stillifera Felder & Rogenhofer 1874
Hampson 1926
Swinhoe 1903
Hampson 1926
Walker 1865

References[]

^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Calesia". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved July 2, 2020.
^ Savela, Markku (June 1, 2020). "Calesia Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1852". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved July 2, 2020.
^ Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Calesia Guenée, 1852". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved July 2, 2020.
^ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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[1] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Calesia". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved July 2, 2020.

[2] Savela, Markku (June 1, 2020). "Calesia Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1852". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved July 2, 2020.

[3] Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Calesia Guenée, 1852". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved July 2, 2020.

[4] Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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