Melanitini

Updated on Oct 10, 2024

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Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Superfamily Papilionoidea Rank Tribe		Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Family Nymphalidae

Similar Elymniini, Paralethe, Elymniopsis, Stygionympha, Heteropsis

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

Melanitini Wikipedia

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