Maxates

Maxates
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Subfamily: Geometrinae
Tribe: Hemitheini
Genus: Maxates
Moore, 1887
Type species
Thalassodes coelataria Walker
Species
  • Gelasma Warren, 1893
  • Thalerura Swinhoe, 1894
  • Thalerura Warren, 1894

Maxates is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.

Description

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

Species

References

  1. Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-iii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.


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