Melanitini | |
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Common evening brown (Melanitis leda) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
(unranked): | Rhopalocera |
Superfamily: | Papilionoidea |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Subfamily: | Satyrinae |
Tribe: |
Melanitini Reuter, 1896 |
Genera | |
About 7, see text |
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: