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Melanitini 
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 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:
- Aeropetes Billberg, 1820 - sometimes placed in Satyrini
- 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
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