Caleta

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Lycaenidae
Subfamilia: Polyommatinae
Tribus: Polyommatini
Genus: Caleta
Species: (9)
C. argola – C. caleta – C. celebensis – C. decidia – C. elna – C. manovus – C. mindarus – C. rhode – C. roxus
Name

Caleta Hirowatari, 1992.

Type species: Lycaena caleta Hewitson, 1876, by monotypy.

Synonymy

Castalius (caleta species-group) Fruhstorfer, [1922]: 890 [Inadequate determination].
Pycnophallium Toxopeus, 1929: 228 [nomen nudum]. Type Species: Polyommatus roxus Godart, [1824], by selection of Hemming, 1964: 133.

Angled Pierrot (Caleta decidia) in Talakona forest, Andhra Pradesh, India

References

Cassidy, A.C., 2013. On some type specimens of Lycaenidae from South East Asia (Lepidoptera). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo 34(3): 137–144, 63 figs. web Reference page.
Fruhstorfer, H. 1909–1927. In Seitz, A., Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 9. Stuttgart. BHL1, BHL2, Plates. Reference page.
Godart, J. B. 1819–1824. In Latreille & Godart, Encyclopedie méthodique. Histoire naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes 9 (article Papillons) (1): 1–328; (2): 329-828. Paris. Reference page.
Hemming, A. F., 1964c. Selection of type species for five nominal genera of the family Lycaenidae. Annotationes lepidopterologicae 4: 132–134. Reference page.
Hemming, A. F., 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1967, Suppl. 9: 1-509.Reference page.
Hewitson, W.C. 1863–1878. Illustrations of diurnal Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae. London, van Vorst, x + 229 pp, 107 pls. Text, plates. Reference page.
Hirowatari, T. 1992. A generic classification of the tribe Polyommatini of the Oriental and Australian regions (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Polyommatinae). Bulletin of the University of Osaka Prefecture (B) 44 (Suppl.) PDF. Reference page.
Hirowatari, T., 1993. Biogeography of the Genus Caleta Fruhstorfer (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Jpn. J. Ent. 61(4): 771-782, 21 figs. Reference page.
Toxopeus, L.J. 1929. De Riodinidae en Lycaenidae van het eiland Java (Lycaenidae Australasiae VI). Entomologisk tidskrift 72: 215-244. BHL Reference page.

Vernacular names
中文: 拓灰蝶屬

Caleta is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae, mainly found in Southeast Asia. The common name Pierrot is used for some species.

Species

In his generic classification of the Polyommatini, Toshiya Hirowatari included nine species in Caleta:

Caleta argola (Hewitson), [1876] Philippine Islands
Caleta caleta (Hewitson), [1876]
Caleta celebensis (Staudinger), 1889
Caleta decidia (Hewitson), [1876]
Caleta elna (Hewitson), [1876]
Caleta manovus (Fruhstorfer), 1918 Borneo
Caleta mindarus (C. & R. Felder), [1865] New Guinea, New Britain
Caleta rhode (Hopffer), 1871 Lesser Sunda Islands, Sulawesi, Buru, Banggai, Timor
Caleta roxus (Godart), [1824]

Cladistics of Caleta after Hirowatari, 1992
Ecology

Recorded host plants include Ziziphus oenoplia (Rhamnaceae).
Taxonomy

The genus Caleta was erected by Hans Fruhstorfer in 1922 in Adalbert Seitz's Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde (The Macrolepidoptera of the World).

Another genus-level name, Pycnophallium, was erected by the Dutch lepidopterist Lambertus Johannes Toxopeus in 1929. He included two Oriental species under this name: Pycnophallium roxus Godart and Pycnophallium elna Hewitson. These species had previously been treated as species in the genera Lycaena or Castalius until Hans Fruhstorfer erected Caleta in 1922. Although Caleta in the wide sense has not been fully revised since Fruhstorfer erected it, Hirowatari, 1992,[1] made an authoritative classification of Oriental polyommatine genera. Hirowatari did not recognise Pycnophallium as a valid genus, but retained nine species, including roxus and elna in Caleta.
References

Hirowatari Toshiya, A Generic Classification of the Tribe Polyommatini of the Oriental and Australian Regions : Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Polyommatinae