Melanitis

Melanitis
Melanitis leda
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Tribe:	Melanitini
Genus:	Melanitis Fabricius, 1807
Diversity
12 species
Synonyms
Hipio Hübner, 1819 Cyllo Boisduval, 1832

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

• "Melanitis Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms