Mimaletis

Mimaletis
Mimaletis postica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Subfamily: Ennominae
Genus: Mimaletis
Warren, 1894
Type species
*Aletis postica Walker, 1869
Synonyms
  • Provola Swinhoe, 1904

Mimaletis is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae. This genus is similar to Scopula but differs in neuration of the wings and the female's antennae that are shortly and stoutly pectinated.[1]

Species

Some species of this genus are:[2]

  • Mimaletis albipennis Warren, 1905
  • Mimaletis humilis Warren, 1894
  • Mimaletis landbecki (Druce, 1910)
  • Mimaletis paucialbata Prout L. B., 1918
  • Mimaletis postica (Walker, 1869)
  • Mimaletis reducta Prout L. B., 1915
  • Mimaletis verecunda Prout L. B., 1934
  • Mimaletis watulekii Carcasson, 1962

References

  1. ↑ Warren, 1894; Novit. zool. 1 (2): 378
  2. ↑ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. 2014. Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera). World Wide Web electronic publication (www.afromoths.net) (19.Jan.2015) Archived 2015-01-19 at the Wayback Machine.


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