Melanis

Melanis is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present in the Neotropical realm.

Melanis
M. aegates
the Pantanal, Brazil
Melanis plate from Adalbert Seitz's Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Riodinidae
Subfamily:
Riodininae
Genus:
Melanis

Hübner, 1819
Synonyms
  • Limnas Boisduval, 1836
  • Lymnas Blanchard, 1840
  • Oreas C. & R. Felder, [1865]
  • Dryas C. & R. Felder, [1865]
  • Rusalkia Kirby, 1871
  • Aculhua Kirby, 1871
M. pixe (red-bordered pixie)

Species
  • Melanis aegates (Hewitson, 1874)
    • M. a. aegates present in Bolivia
    • M. a. albugo (Stichel, 1910) present in Paraguay
    • M. a. araguaya (Seitz, 1913) present in Brazil
    • M. a. cretiplaga (Stichel, 1910) present in Paraguay and Argentina
    • M. a. lilybaeus (Stichel, 1926) present in Brazil
    • M. a. limbata (Stichel, 1925) present in Brazil
    • M. a. melliplaga (Stichel, 1910) present in French Guiana and Suriname
  • Melanis alena (Hewitson, 1870) present in Brazil
  • Melanis boyi (Stichel, 1923) present in Brazil
  • Melanis cephise (Ménétriés, 1855)
    • M. c. cephise present in Nicaragua and Mexico
    • M. c. acroleuca (R. Felder, 1869) present in Mexico
    • M. c. huasteca J. & A. White, 1989 present in Mexico
  • Melanis cercopes (Hewitson, 1874) present in Bolivia
  • Melanis cinaron (C. & R. Felder, 1861) present in Colombia, Brazil and Peru
  • Melanis cratia (Hewitson, 1870)
  • Melanis electron (Fabricius, 1793)
    • M. e. electron present in French Guiana, Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela
    • M. e. auriferax (Stichel, 1910) present in Brazil
    • M. e. epijarbas (Staudinger, 1888) present in Brazil
    • M. e. herellus (Snellen, 1887) present in Curaçao
    • M. e. melantho (Ménétriés, 1855) present in Panama, Guatemala and Nicaragua
    • M. e. pronostriga (Stichel, 1910) present in Colombia and Brazil
    • M. e. rabuscula (Stichel, 1910) present in Brazil and Peru
  • Melanis herminae (Zikán, 1952) present in Brazil
  • Melanis hillapana (Röber, 1904)
    • M. h. hillapana present in Bolivia and Peru
    • M. h. corinna (Zikán, 1952) present in Brazil
    • M. h. cratippa (Seitz, 1913) present in Brazil
    • M. h. impura (Stichel, 1910)
  • Melanis hodia (Butler, 1870) present in Venezuela
  • Melanis leucophlegma (Stichel, 1910) present in Peru
  • Melanis lioba (Zikán, 1952) present in Brazil
  • Melanis lycea Hübner, 1823 present in Brazil
  • Melanis marathon (C. & R. Felder, [1865])
    • M. m. marathon present in Venezuela and Colombia
    • M. m. assimulata (Stichel, 1910) present in Colombia
    • M. m. charon (Butler, 1874) present in Brazil
    • M. m. stenotaenia Röber, 1904 present in Peru
  • Melanis melandra Hübner, [1819] present in Suriname
  • Melanis melaniae (Stichel, 1930) present in Brazil
  • Melanis opites (Hewitson, 1875) present in Brazil
  • Melanis passiena (Hewitson, 1870) present in Colombia
  • Melanis pixe (Boisduval, [1836])
    • M. p. pixe present in the US at Texas and Mexico
    • M. p. corvina (Stichel, 1910) present in Colombia
    • M. p. sanguinea (Stichel, 1910) present in Panama and Costa Rica
  • Melanis seleukia (Stichel, 1910) present in Brazil
  • Melanis smithiae (Westwood, 1851)
    • M. s. smithiae present in Bolivia and Brazil
    • M. s. xarifa (Hewitson, [1853]) present in Colombia and Venezuela
  • Melanis unxia (Hewitson, [1853]) present in Brazil
  • Melanis vidali (Dognin, 1891) present in Ecuador
  • Melanis volusia (Hewitson, [1853]) present in Brazil
  • Melanis xenia (Hewitson, [1853])
    • M. x. xenia present in Brazil
    • M. x. ambryllis (Hewitson, 1874) present in Paraguay and Bolivia
  • Melanis yeda (Zikán, 1952) present in Brazil

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