Maxates
| Maxates | |
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| Maxates centrophylla | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Tribe: | Joditi |
| Genus: | Maxates Moore, 1887 |
| Type species | |
| Thalassodes coelataria Walker, 1861 | |
| Species | |
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Maxates is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae first described by Frederic Moore in 1887.
Description
[edit]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
[edit]- Maxates acutissima Walker
- Maxates albistrigata (Warren, 1895)
- Maxates angulata (Lucas, 1888)
- Maxates calaina (Turner, 1910)
- Maxates centrophylla (Meyrick, 1888)
- Maxates coelataria (Walker, 1861)
- Maxates cowani (Butler, 1880)
- Maxates dissimulata (Walker, 1861)
- Maxates dysides Prout, 1922
- Maxates eumixis (Prout 1911)
- Maxates fuscifimbria (Prout)
- Maxates fuscipuncta (Warren, 1898)
- Maxates glaucaria (Walker, 1866)
- Maxates goniaria (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
- Maxates grandificaria Graeser, 1890
- Maxates inaptaria (Walker)
- Maxates iridescoides Holloway, 1996
- Maxates iridescens (Warren)
- Maxates korintjiensis (Prout, 1933)
- Maxates lactipuncta (Inoue, 1989)
- Maxates lugubriosa Holloway, 1996
- Maxates marculenta (Prout, 1933)
- Maxates magnipuncta (Prout, 1916)
- Maxates melancholica (Prout, 1912)
- Maxates melinau Holloway, 1996
- Maxates multitincta (Lucas, 1891)
- Maxates muluensis Holloway, 1996
- Maxates obliterata Holloway, 1996
- Maxates orthodesma (Lower, 1894)
- Maxates prasina (Warren, 1894)
- Maxates protrusa (Butler, 1878)
- Maxates selenosema (Turner, 1941)
- Maxates seria Holloway, 1996
- Maxates sinuolata (Inoue, 1989)
- Maxates subannulata (Prout)
- Maxates submontana Holloway, 1996
- Maxates tanygona (Turner, 1904)
- Maxates thetydaria (Guenée, 1857)
- Maxates tristis Holloway, 1996
- Maxates variegata Holloway, 1996
- Maxates veninotata (Warren, 1894)
- Maxates waterstradti (Prout, 1933)
References
[edit]- ↑ 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.
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