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Evening Browns
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Evening Browns

Melanitis

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

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13 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Common Evening Brown

speciesMelanitis leda

Dark Evening Brown

speciesMelanitis phedima

Great Evening Brown

speciesMelanitis zitenius

Melanitis atrax

speciesMelanitis atrax

Papuan Evening Brown

speciesMelanitis constantia

Violet-eyed Evening Brown

speciesMelanitis libya

Banded Evening Brown

speciesMelanitis amabilis

Melanitis velutina

speciesMelanitis velutina

Melanitis pyrrha

speciesMelanitis pyrrha

Melanitis boisduvalia

speciesMelanitis boisduvalia

Melanitis auletes

speciesMelanitis auletes

Melanitis taitensis

speciesMelanitis taitensis

Melanitis ponapensis

speciesMelanitis ponapensis

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 51585.