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.

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

• Igarashi, S. & H. Fukuda (2000). The Life Histories of Asian Butterflies vol. 2. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.

• at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

External links

• Images representing at Consortium for the Barcode of Life