Melanitis
{{Short description|Genus of butterflies}}
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| image = Common Evening Brown (Melanitis leda) in Kawal, AP W IMG 1932.jpg
| image_caption = Melanitis leda
| taxon = Melanitis
| authority = Fabricius, 1807
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| diversity = 12 species
| diversity_link = #Species
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Melanitis is a genus of butterflies from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae.
Species
- 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
- [http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/satyrinae/melanitis/ "Melanitis Fabricius, 1807"] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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Category:Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius
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