page_title: Elymniini
section_title: Selected genera
hierarchical_section_title: Elymniini / Systematics / Selected genera
caption_attribution_description: Pararge xiphioides, Anaga-Gebirge, Teneriffa
context_page_description: The Elymniini, or true browns, are one of the large tribes of the browns subfamily in the brush-footed butterfly family. Sometimes, they are elevated to subfamily status as Elymniinae.
context_section_description: Subtribes are listed in the presumed phylogenetic sequence, from the most ancient to the most advanced; genera are listed alphabetically. Some species are also listed.
  Subtribe Elymniina
  Elymnias Hübner, 1818 – palmflies
  Elymniopsis Fruhstorfer, 1907
  Hyantis Hewitson, 1862
  Morphopsis Oberthür, 1880
  Subtribe Zetherina
  Callarge Leech, 1892
  Ethope Moore, 1866 (sometimes placed in Lethina)
  Ethope himachala – dusky diadem
  Neorina Westwood, 1850 (sometimes erroneously placed in Lethina)
  Neorina patria – white owl
  Penthema Doubleday, 1848
  Zethera Felder, 1861
  Subtribe Lethina (including Parargina, but paraphyletic)
  Chonala Moore, 1893 (might belong in Tatinga)
  Enodia Hübner, [1819] – pearly-eyes
  Hanipha Moore, 1880
  Kirinia Moore, 1893 (including Esperarge)
  Lasiommata Westwood, 1841 – walls and wallbrowns (formerly in Pararge)
  Lethe – treebrowns, woodbrowns, foresters and relatives
  Lopinga Moore, 1893 (formerly in Pararge)
  Mandarinia Leech, 1892
  Neope Moore, 1866
  Ninguta Moore, 1892
  Nosea Koiwaya, 1993
  Orinoma Gray, 1846
  Pararge Hübner, 1819
  Ptychandra C. & R. Felder, 1861
  Ptychandra ohtanii
  Rhaphicera Butler, 1867
  Satyrodes Scudder, 1875
  Tatinga Moore, 1893 (might include Chonala)
  Subtribe Mycalesina
  Bicyclus Kirby, 1871
  Bletogona C. & R. Felder, 1867
  Hallelesis Condamin, 1961
  Heteropsis Westwood, 1850 (including Admiratio, Henotesia, Houlbertia, Masoura)
  Mycalesis – bushbrowns
  Nirvanopsis
  Orsotriaena – smooth-eyed bush-brown
  Pseudomycalesis Tsukada & Nishiyama, 1979
caption: Pararge xiphioides belongs in the revalidated Parargina
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