''Melinaea'' is a genus of clearwing (
ithomiine) butterflies. They are in the brush-footed butterfly family,
Nymphalidae
The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species ha ...
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Species
Arranged alphabetically:
"''Melinaea'' Hübner, 1816"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
*'' Melinaea ethra'' (Godart, 1819)
*'' Melinaea idae'' (Felder & Felder, 1862)
*'' Melinaea isocomma'' Forbes, 1948
*'' Melinaea lilis'' (Doubleday, 1847)
*'' Melinaea ludovica'' (Cramer, 780
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*'' Melinaea marsaeus'' (Hewitson, 1860)
*'' Melinaea menophilus'' (Hewitson, 1856) – Hewitson's tiger
*'' Melinaea mnasias'' (Hewitson, 1856)
*'' Melinaea mneme'' (Linnaeus, 1763)
*'' Melinaea mnemopsis'' Berg, 1897
*'' Melinaea satevis'' (Doubleday, 1847)
References
Ithomiini
Nymphalidae of South America
Nymphalidae genera
Taxa named by Jacob Hübner
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