Melanitini
Melanitini
Tribe of butterflies
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:
- Aeropetes Billberg, 1820 - sometimes placed in Satyrini
- Aphysoneura Karsch, 1894 - sometimes placed in Elymniini
- Cyllogenes Butler, 1868
- Gnophodes Doubleday, 1849
- Manataria W.F. Kirby, [1902]
- Melanitis Fabricius, 1807
- Paralethe van Son, 1955 - sometimes placed in Satyrini
- Parantirrhoea Wood-Mason, 1881
