Melanitini
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| Melanitini | |
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| Common evening brown (Melanitis leda) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Subfamily: | Satyrinae |
| Tribe: | Melanitini Reuter, 1896 |
| Genera | |
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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:
- Aphysoneura Karsch, 1894 - sometimes placed in Elymniini
- Cyllogenes Butler, 1868
- Gnophodes Doubleday, 1849[1]
- Haydonia Pyrcz & Collins, 2020
- Manataria (W.F. Kirby, 1902)
- Melanitis Fabricius, 1807[1]
- Parantirrhoea Wood-Mason, 1881
References
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- ^ a b Pyrcz, Tomasz W.; Collins, Steve; Zubek, Anna; Wacławik, Beniamin; Sáfián, Szabolcs; Bąkowski, Marek; Florczyk, Klaudia (2020). "Previously unrecognized diversity of Afrotropical Melanitini butterflies (Nymphalidae, Satyrinae): doubling the number of species and genera". Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny. doi:10.26049/ASP78-2-2020-01. Retrieved 2026-03-01.
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