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The genus '''Calyptra''' is a group of moths in subfamily Calpinae of the family Noctuidae. They are a member of the 'Calpini' tribe. whose precise circumscription is uncertain but includes a number of other fruit-piercing or eye-frequenting genera currently classified in the subfamily Calpinae [1].
The common name of many of these species, "vampire moth," refers to the habit that they have of drinking blood from vertebrates. According to a recent study some of them (''Calyptra thalictri'') are even capable of drinking human blood through skin [2]
Some species of this genus have been classified with genus name ''Calpe'' and they include more than one blood-sucker.

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Some species of ''Calyptra''

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Some species of ''Calyptra''

★ ''Calyptra albivirgata'' (Hampson, 1926).

★ ''Calyptra bicolor'' (Moore, 1883).

★ ''Calyptra canadensis'' (Bethune, 1865), Canadian Owlet Moth.

★ ''Calyptra eustrigata'', Vampire moth in Southeast Asia.

★ ''Calyptra fasciata'' (Moore, 1882).

★ ''Calyptra fletcheri'' (Berio, 1956).

★ ''Calyptra hokkaida'' (Wileman, 1922), in Japan.

★ ''Calyptra labilis'', Vampire moth, in Thailand.

★ ''Calyptra lata'' (Butler, 1881), a large light tan colored moth of east Asia [3].

★ ''Calyptra minuticornis'' (Guenée, 1852), Vampire moth in Thailand and Malaysia.

★ ''Calyptra nyei'' (Bänziger, 1979).

★ ''Calyptra ophideroides'' (Guenée, 1852).

★ ''Calyptra orthographa'' (Butler, 1886), Vampire moth in northern Thailand and northern Laos.

★ ''Calyptra pseudobicolor'' Bänziger, 1979.

★ ''Calyptra thalictri'' (Borkhausen, 1790) in Hungary, Armenia, Kyrghyzstan. This species have been spotted as far north as central Finland

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★ Moths of genus ''Calyptra''