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Species TypeStatus Gender Locality
Meliaba pelopsalis Walker, 1859 Holotype ♂ South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Port Natal [Durban], leg. Gueinzius.
Melinoessa aemonia (Swinhoe, 1904) Holotype ♀ Uganda, Kampala, 06.ii.1900, leg. H. B. Rattray.
Melinoessa aemonia aemonia (Swinhoe, 1904) Holotype ♀ Uganda, Kampala, 06.ii.1900, leg. H. B. Rattray.
Melinoessa aemonia restrictiflava Prout L. B., 1922 Holotype unknown Cameroon, Bitje [Bitye], Ja [Dja] river, 1913, leg. G. L. Bates.
Melinoessa amplissimata (Walker, 1863) Holotype ♀ Unknown.
Melinoessa asteria Prout L. B., 1934 Holotype ♂ Cameroon, Bitje [Bitye], Ja [Dja] river, 1913, leg. G. L. Bates.
Melinoessa aureola Prout L. B., 1934 Holotype ♂ Sierra Leone.
Melinoessa costalis (Walker, 1869) Holotype ♂ Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, leg. Marsden.
Melinoessa eurycrossa Prout L. B., 1934 Holotype ♀ Cameroon, Yaounde to Yoko road, 2000 ft, vii.1921, leg. G. L. Bates.
Melinoessa horni Prout L. B., 1922 Paratype ♀ Cameroon, Bitje [Bitye], Ja [Dja] river, x.1912, leg. G. L. Bates.
Melinoessa midas Prout L. B., 1922 Holotype ♂ Cameroon, Bitje [Bitye], Ja [Dja] river, 2000 ft, xi.1907, leg. G. L. Bates.
Melinoessa molybdauges Prout L. B., 1927 Syntype ♂ São Tomé & Principe, São Tomé, 10–24.i.1926, leg. T. A. Barns.
Melinoessa palumbata (Warren, 1894) Holotype ♂ [Nigeria], River Niger, Onitaba.
Melinoessa pauper Warren, 1901 Holotype ♀ [Kenya], Nandi Country, Rau, 23–24.ii.1899, leg. W. J. Ansorge.
Melinoessa perlimbata (Guenée, 1858) Holotype ♂ Unknown (see L. B. Prout 1926b: 17).
Melinoessa sodaliata (Walker, 1863) Holotype ♂ Sierra Leone, leg. D. F. Morgan.
Melinoessa stramineata (Walker, 1869) Holotype ♀ Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, leg. Marsden.
Melinoessa subalbida Warren, 1905 Syntype ♂ Uganda, Entebbe, v.1900, leg. Rattray.
Melinoessa tanyglochis Prout L. B., 1928 Paratype unknown Uganda, Kampala, 24.vii.1925.
Melinoessa torquilinea Prout L. B., 1916 Holotype ♂ Cameroon, Bitje [Bitye], Ja [Dja] river, 2000 ft, xii.1907–iii.1908.
Melionica fletcheri Berio, 1973 Paratype ♂ [Tanzania], District Njombe, Kipengere Range, Ikonda, 2050 m, 18.iii.1971, leg. Dall'Olmo.
Melionica tenebra (Hampson, 1905) Holotype ♂ [Kenya], Br. E. Africa, Eb Urru [Eburru], 30.v.1900, leg. C. S. Betton.
Melisa atavistis Hampson, 1911 Syntype ♂ [Ghana], Gold Coast, Bibianaha, 70 miles NW of Dimkwa, 700 ft, leg. H. G. F. Spurell.
Melisa diptera (Walker, 1854) Holotype ♂ Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, leg. J. Richardson.
Melisoides bitjeana (Bethune-Baker, 1927) Lectotype ♀ Cameroon, Bitje [Bitye], Ja [Dja] river, 2000 ft, leg. G. L. Bates.