Dryotribus mimeticus is a species of beetle in the family Curculionidae.

It is endemic to the United States, with the species also being recorded on Scorpion Reef a remote island chain in Mexico.

[2] The species also occurred in Florida, it has been suggested in Biologia Centrali-Americana that it was actually introduced to Hawaii from the Florida population.

[5] Despite being considered extinct since 1986, 2 specimen of D. mimeticus were found and collected in the Dominican Republic in 1997; 11 years after the species was said to be extinct.

[6] In 2002 another specimen of the species was collected in Montserrat.