Melanitini
Appearance
Melanitini | |
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Common evening brown (Melanitis leda) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Subfamily: | Satyrinae |
Tribe: | Melanitini Reuter, 1896 |
Genera | |
About 7, see text |
The Melanitini (evening browns and relatives) are one of the smaller tribes of the Satyrinae in the Nymphalidae (brush-footed butterfly) family. They contain the following genera:
- Aeropetes Billberg, 1820 - sometimes placed in Satyrini
- Aphysoneura Karsch, 1894 - sometimes placed in Elymniini
- Cyllogenes Butler, 1868
- Gnophodes Doubleday, 1849
- Manataria W.F. Kirby, [1902]
- Melanitis Fabricius, 1807
- Paralethe van Son, 1955 - sometimes placed in Satyrini
- Parantirrhoea Wood-Mason, 1881
References
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