Maxates
Maxates | |
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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
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Species | |
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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[]
- ^ Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- Savela, Markku (ed.). "Maxates Moore, [1887]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
Categories:
- Hemitheini
- Geometrinae stubs