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, ) Melanitis leda (Linnaeus, 1758) – common evening brown Melanitis libya Distant, 1882 – violet-eyed evening brown Melanitis phedima (Cramer, ) – dark evening brown Melanitis pyrrha Röber, 1887 Melanitis velutina (C. & R. Felder, ) Melanitis zitenius (Herbst, 1796) – great evening brown
References "Melanitis Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms