Melanitini
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| 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
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