title: Melanitis
text: # Melanitis
  
  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
  