Biology:Melete (genus)

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Short description: Butterfly genus in family Pieridae


Melete
Melete leucadia MHNT dos.jpg
Melete leucadia - Muséum de Toulouse
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Tribe: Pierini
Genus: Melete
Swainson, 1831[1]
Species

See text.

Synonyms
  • Daptonoura Butler, 1869

Melete is a Neotropical genus of butterflies in the family Pieridae.

Species

  • Melete calymnia (Felder, C & R Felder, 1862)
  • Melete leucadia (Felder, C & R Felder, 1862)
  • Melete leucanthe (Felder, C & R Felder, 1861)
  • Melete lycimnia (Cramer, 1777)
  • Melete polyhymnia (Felder, C & R Felder, 1865)
  • Melete salacia (Godart, 1819)

References

  1. Melete, funet.fi

Wikidata ☰ Q1755671 entry