Melanitini

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