title: Melanthia
text: # Melanthia
  
  Melanthia is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae erected by Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel in 1829.
  
  ## Species
  
  * Melanthia alaudaria (Freyer, 1846)
  * Melanthia procellata (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) – pretty chalk carpet
  