Type species: Calesia comosa, 1852. Histoire naturelle des Insectes. VII. Species général des Lépidoptères. Noctuélites. Tome III: 258; pl. 21, fig. 7. By subsequent designation by Desmarest, 1857. – In: Chenu, Encyclédie d'Histoire naturelle (Papillons nocturnes): 132. Included in Catocalinae tribus Tinoliini by J. D. Holloway (2005: 122). Placed in Erebidae: Tinoliinae by D. Lees & J. Minet (2022: 1169).