Calinaga Explained

Calinaga is the sole genus of the monotypic nymphalid butterfly subfamily Calinaginae. Its species occur in South Asia and Southeast Asia. The evolutionary history of Calinaga remains a mystery until today. Recent research indicated that the common ancestor of Calinaga first split in the Eocene in southern China. This was most likely due to a consequence of geological and environmental impacts of the collision of the Indian and Asian subcontinents.^[1]

Classification

• Calinaga aborica Tytler, 1915 – Abor freak
• Calinaga buddha Moore, 1857 – freak
• Calinaga buphonas Oberthür, 1920
• Calinaga cercyon de Nicéville
• Calinaga davidis Oberthür
• Calinaga funebris Oberthür, 1919
• Calinaga funeralis Monastyrskii & Devyatkin, 2000
• Calinaga genestieri Oberthür, 1922
• Calinaga gautama Moore, 1896 – Sikkim freak
• Calinaga lhatso Oberthür, 1893
• Calinaga sudassana Melville, 1893

References

1. Todisco . Valentina . Nazari . Vazrick . Cesaroni . Donatella . Sbordoni . Valerio . Preliminary molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the monobasic subfamily Calinaginae (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) . Zoosystematics and Evolution . 13 April 2017 . 93 . 2 . 243–254 . 10.3897/zse.93.10744. free . Material was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

• Igarashi, S. & H. Fukuda (2000). The Life Histories of Asian Butterflies vol. 2. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
• Calinaginae at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

External links

• Images representing Calinaga at Consortium for the Barcode of Life