Callipta

{{Short description|Genus of leaf beetles}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Callipta

| display_parents = 2

| authority = Lefèvre, 1885{{cite journal|last=Lefèvre|first=E.|year=1885|title=[Callipta]|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10172100|journal=Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France|series=6|volume=5|issue=2|pages=CXXIV–CXXV}}

| type_species = Calliope fausti

| type_species_authority = Weise, 1882

| synonyms =

• Calliope Weise, 1882
  (preoccupied)
• Arachnipta Medvedev, 1957

}}

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.{{cite book|last1=Moseyko|first1=A. G.|last2=Sprecher-Uebersax|first2=E.|year=2010|chapter=Eumolpinae|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qt8zDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA620|editor-last1=Löbl|editor-first1=I.|editor-last2=Smetana|editor-first2=A.|title=Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea|location=Stenstrup, Denmark|publisher=Apollo Books|pages=619–643|isbn=978-87-88757-84-2}}{{cite web|title=Callipta|url=http://www.chrysomelidae.it/afr_Eum/genere_Callipta.html|website=African Eumolpinae site|access-date=22 July 2018}} 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 (for instance, the passerine bird genus Calliope Gould, 1836), so it was renamed to Callipta by Lefèvre in 1885.