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Melanitis
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Melanitis is a genus of butterflies from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilyNymphalidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 21
- With media
- 5
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Collections
- YPM, VPI, CSIRO, FMNH, CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, OH (CLEV), MZLU
- Recorded in
- Malaysia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Brazil, Indonesia, India, Taiwan, Solomon Islands
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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
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