Melanitis is a genus of butterflies from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae.
| Melanitis | |
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| Melanitis leda | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Tribe: | Melanitini |
| Genus: | Melanitis Fabricius, 1807 |
| Diversity | |
| 12 species | |
| Synonyms | |
Species
edit- Melanitis amabilis (Boisduval, 1832)
- Melanitis ansorgei Rothschild, 1904 – blue evening brown
- Melanitis atrax C. & R. Felder, 1863
- Melanitis belinda Grose-Smith, 1895
- Melanitis boisduvalia C. & R. Felder, 1863
- Melanitis constantia (Cramer, [1777])
- Melanitis leda (Linnaeus, 1758) – common evening brown
- Melanitis libya Distant, 1882 – violet-eyed evening brown
- Melanitis phedima (Cramer, [1780]) – dark evening brown
- Melanitis pyrrha Röber, 1887
- Melanitis velutina (C. & R. Felder, [1867])
- Melanitis zitenius (Herbst, 1796) – great evening brown
References
edit- "Melanitis Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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