Maxates

Maxates
Maxates centrophylla
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Tribe:
Genus:	Maxates Moore, 1887
Type species
Thalassodes coelataria Walker, 1861
Species
Gelasma Warren, 1893 Thalerura C. Swinhoe, 1894 Thalerura Warren, 1894

Maxates is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae first described by Frederic Moore in 1887.

Description[]

Palpi porrect (extending forward), where the second joint thickly scaled and reaching beyond the frons. Third joint naked. Forewings with highly arched costa towards apex. The outer margin usually highly crenulate and excised between veins 4 and 6. Veins 3, 4 and 7 to 10 stalked. Vein 11 anastomosing (fusing) with vein 12. Hindwings quadrate, with margin highly crenulate (scalloped) and produced to a point at vein 6, and tail at vein 4. Veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 stalked.^[1]

Species[]

• Maxates acutissima Walker
• (Warren, 1895)
• (Lucas, 1888)
• (Turner, 1910)
• Maxates centrophylla (Meyrick, 1888)
• Maxates coelataria (Walker, 1861)
• (Butler, 1880)
• Maxates dissimulata (Walker, 1861)
• Prout, 1922
• (Prout 1911)
• (Prout)
• (Warren, 1898)
• Maxates glaucaria (Walker, 1866)
• (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
• Graeser, 1890
• (Walker)
• Holloway, 1996
• (Warren)
• (Prout, 1933)
• Maxates lactipuncta (Inoue, 1989)
• Holloway, 1996
• (Prout, 1933)
• (Prout, 1916)
• (Prout, 1912)
• Holloway, 1996
• (Lucas, 1891)
• Holloway, 1996
• Holloway, 1996
• (Lower, 1894)
• (Warren, 1894)
• (Butler, 1878)
• (Turner, 1941)
• Holloway, 1996
• Maxates sinuolata (Inoue, 1989)
• (Prout)
• Holloway, 1996
• (Turner, 1904)
• (Guenée, 1857)
• Holloway, 1996
• Holloway, 1996
• (Warren, 1894)
• (Prout, 1933)

References[]

• Savela, Markku (ed.). "Maxates Moore, [1887]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 1, 2018.

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