Mimaletis

Mimaletis is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae described by Warren in 1894. This genus is similar to Scopula but differs in neuration of the wings and the female's antennae that are shortly and stoutly pectinated (comb like).[1]

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

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
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References
  1. Warren (1894). Novitates Zoologicae. 1 (2): 378
  2. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Mimaletis Warren, 1894". Afromoths. Retrieved April 12, 2019.


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