Imma mormopa

Imma mormopa is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1910. It is found in on Ambon Island in the Moluccas of Indonesia.[1]

Imma mormopa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Immidae
Genus: Imma
Species:
I. mormopa
Binomial name
Imma mormopa
Meyrick, 1910

The wingspan is 14–15 mm. The forewings are purple blackish with four thick transverse suffused whitish-fuscous streaks, the first two straight, the third curved, sharply indented towards the dorsum, the fourth from two-thirds of the costa to the tornus, curved and narrower. There is a whitish-fuscous discal spot between the second and the third. The hindwings are dark fuscous with straight whitish-fuscous postmedian and subterminal transverse streaks, the former suffused with white on the upper half.[2]

References

  1. Savela, Markku, ed. (September 6, 2019). "Imma mormopa Meyrick, 1910". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 2, 2020.
  2. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1910: 466. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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