Bursadella tonans

Bursadella tonans is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1925. It is found in New Guinea.[1]

Bursadella tonans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Immidae
Genus: Bursadella
Species:
B. tonans
Binomial name
Bursadella tonans
(Meyrick, 1925)
Synonyms
  • Imma tonans Meyrick, 1925

Appearance

The wingspan is 32–36 mm. The forewings are ochreous yellow, with purple-black markings.

There is a costal streak to the apical patch, and dorsal streak to about three-fourths. There is also a basal mark from which rise streaks above and below the cell diverging from a point and not reaching the middle, and a streak below the fold parallel to the lower of these. A large apical patch, the edge rather concave and running from the middle of the costa to the tornus, encloses a subcrescentic transverse ochreous-yellow streak before the apex.

The hindwings are black with a curved ochreous-yellow fascia from the costa posteriorly to near the middle of the termen, widest on the costa and narrowed to a point beneath, leaving a black marginal streak around the apex and termen.[2]

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