Melanitini

{{Short description|Tribe of butterflies}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Melanitis leda sec.jpg

| image_caption = Common evening brown (Melanitis leda)

| taxon = Melanitini

| authority = Reuter, 1896

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision = 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
• Haydonia Pyrcz & Collins, 2020
• Manataria W.F. Kirby, [1902]
• Melanitis Fabricius, 1807
• Parantirrhoea Wood-Mason, 1881