Imma spanista

Imma spanista is a moth of the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1930. It is found on New Guinea[1] and Papua New Guinea.[2]

Imma spanista
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Immidae
Genus:
Imma
Species:
I. spanista
Binomial name
Imma spanista
Meyrick, 1930

The wingspan is about 16 millimetres (0.63 in). The forewings are deep purple with a moderate dark fuscous terminal fascia and a small transverse ochreous-whitish spot on the costa beyond the middle. The hindwings are fuscous, with the posterior three-fifths of the wing suffused with dark fuscous and the area beneath the cell thinly scaled, and beneath this a hyaline (glass-like) subdorsal line.[3]

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Imma spanista". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
  2. de Vos, Rob. "Imma spanista Meyrick, 1930". Papua-Insects.nl. The Papua Insects Foundation. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  3. Exotic Microlepidoptera. 4: 2.


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