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Also known as Evening Brown

Melanitis is a genus of butterflies from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae.

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  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderLepidoptera
  5. FamilyNymphalidae
Observations recorded31,742

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Common Evening Brown (Melanitis leda) in Kawal, AP W IMG 1932.jpg
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Melanitis
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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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