-Animals (Kingdom Animalia)

-Arthropods (Phylum Arthropoda)

-Hexapods (Subphylum Hexapoda)

-Insects (Class Insecta)

-Winged and Once-winged Insects (Subclass Pterygota)

-Butterflies and Moths (Order Lepidoptera)

-Butterflies (Superfamily Papilionoidea)

-Whites, Yellows, and Sulphurs (Family Pieridae)

-Whites (Subfamily Pierinae)

-Tribe Pierini

-Subtribe Aporiina

-Genus Melete

-Common Melwhite (Melete lycimnia)

-Melete lycimnia ssp. isandra

Melete lycimnia, the common melwhite, primrose flag or lycimnia white flag, is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found from Texas to Bolivia. The habitat consists of lowland rainforests. The wingspan is 52–56 mm . The appearance of the adults depends on the subspecies and ranges from a white ground colour, narrow black borders, and a yellow spot at the base of the hindwings to primrose yellow, with wide brown borders . In all subspecies, females are more yellowish. The larvae probably feed on Loranthaceae species.