''Melete'' is a
Neotropical
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone.
Definition
In bioge ...
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of
butterflies
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...
in the
family
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Pieridae
The Pieridae are a large family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing about 1,100 species, mostly from tropical Africa and tropical Asia with some varieties in the more northern regions of North America and Eurasia.DeVries P. J. in Le ...
. The genus was erected by
William John Swainson
William John Swainson FLS, FRS (8 October 1789 – 6 December 1855), was an English ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist, entomologist and artist.
Life
Swainson was born in Dover Place, St Mary Newington, London, the eldest son of ...
in 1831.
Species
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Melete calymnia''
(C. Felder & R. Felder, 1862)
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Melete leucadia''
(C. Felder & R. Felder, 1862)
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Melete leucanthe''
(C. Felder & R. Felder, 1861)
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Melete lycimnia''
(Cramer, 1777)
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Melete polyhymnia''
(C. Felder & R. Felder, 1865)
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Melete salacia''
(Godart, 1819)
References
Pierini
Pieridae of South America
Pieridae genera
Taxa named by William John Swainson
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