 | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source .(March 2026) |
| Melanitini | |
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| Common evening brown (Melanitis leda) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Subfamily: | Satyrinae |
| Tribe: | Melanitini Reuter, 1896 |
| Genera | |
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 [1]
- HaydoniaPyrcz & Collins, 2020
- Manataria W.F. Kirby, [1902]
- Melanitis Fabricius, 1807 [1]
- Parantirrhoea Wood-Mason, 1881
