Calicosama J. Hall & Harvey, 2001

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Opler, Paul A. & Grishin, Nick V., 2021, Genomics-guided refinement of butterfly taxonomy, The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 9 (3), pp. 1-55 : 28

Calicosama J. Hall & Harvey, 2001 is a subgenus of Behemothia Hall, 2000

Monotypic genus Behemothia Hall, 2000 ( type and the only species Pandemos godmanii Dewitz, 1877 ) is closely related to nearly monotypic Calicosama J. Hall & Harvey, 2001 ( type species Nymphidium lilina Butler, 1870 ) (Fig. 28). Both genera are mostly Central American. To highlight their close kinship and reduce the number of unnecessarily monotypic genera we propose that Calicosama J. Hall & Harvey, 2001 is a subgenus of Behemothia Hall, 2000 .