Mimaletis

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;

Mimaletis is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae. This genus is similar to Scopula but differs in neuration of the wings and the female's antennae that are shortly and stoutly pectinated.^[1]

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

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

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[1] Warren, 1894; Novit. zool. 1 (2): 378

[2] De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. 2014. Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera). World Wide Web electronic publication (www.afromoths.net) (19.Jan.2015)

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