genus

MelanitisFabricius, 1807

Evening Browns

species: 11out of 1385% covered
images: 1,625

Counts cover images whose name resolved to a species accepted by Catalogue of Life, so they can be lower than the totals on the Collections page. Totals and percentages compare them with the accepted families, genera and species Catalogue of Life places in this taxon.

Species in this genus

Morphospace

Variation in species coloration mapped onto the latent space. Each species is represented by two points, one for its dorsal side and one for its ventral side. The farther apart the dorsal and ventral points are, the more different the two sides are in coloration.

Classification

genusMelanitis11 species1,625 images
- speciesMelanitis amabilis(Boisduval, 1832)58 images
- speciesMelanitis ansorgeiRothschild, 19046 images
- speciesMelanitis atrax(Felder, 1863)3 images
- speciesMelanitis belindaSmith, 1895
- speciesMelanitis boisduvaliaFelder, 18635 images
- speciesMelanitis constantiaCramer, 1779130 images
- speciesMelanitis leda(Linnaeus, 1758)1,142 images
- speciesMelanitis libyaDistant, 188218 images
- speciesMelanitis liukiuanaSwinhoe, 1915
- speciesMelanitis phedimaCramer, 1782164 images
- speciesMelanitis pyrrhaRöber, 188734 images
- speciesMelanitis velutinaFelder, 186721 images
- speciesMelanitis ziteniusHerbst, 179644 images

Linked species have records in the collection. Species in grey are in the Catalogue of Life classification but have no images here yet.

Source: Catalogue of Life (v2026-08-26 XR)