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Melanitini

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Superfamily
  
Papilionoidea

Rank
  
Tribe

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Melanitini

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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