Callipta
Callipta is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It contains four species, which are distributed in the Caucasus, Central to East Asia and North Africa. The genus was originally named Calliope by Julius Weise in 1882; however, as Édouard Lefèvre pointed out, the name "Calliope" had been used a number of times for genera described previously, so it was renamed to Callipta by Lefèvre in 1885.
Species
Callipta borealis Lopatin, 1976 – Uzbekistan, China Callipta fausti- * Callipta fausti badghyza Lopatin, 1997 – Turkmenistan
- * Callipta fausti balchana Lopatin, 1997 – Turkmenistan
- * Callipta fausti fausti – Azerbaijan, southern European Russia
- * Callipta fausti murgabica Lopatin, 1997 – Turkmenistan
- * Callipta fausti palvanica Lopatin, 1997 – Turkmenistan
- * Callipta fausti turcomana Medvedev, 1957 – Turkmenistan Callipta iranica Lopatin, 1997 – IranCallipta oberthuri – Algeria, Tunesia