| Higher taxa: |
Crambidae (family)/
Spilomelinae (subfamily)/
Udeini (tribe)/
Melanomecyna (genus)/
|
| Status: | Synonym
, the accepted name is Udea
|
| Authorship: | Butler, 1883 |
| Citation: | Melanomecyna, gen. nov. |
| Taxon remarks: | Type species: Melanomecyna stellata Butler, 1883. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 19: 179. By subsequent designation by Fletcher & Nye, 1984. – In: Nye, Generic Names of Moths of the World 5: 89. |
| Publication: | Butler A. G. 1883e. On a small series of Lepidoptera from the Hawaiian Islands. |
| Journal: | Entomologist's Monthly Magazine |
| Volume: | 19 |
| Issue: | |
| Pagination: | 179 |
| URL: | https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9267537 |