Biology:Imma mormopa

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Short description: Species of moth

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

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]

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". https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/immoidea/immidae/imma/#mormopa. Retrieved September 2, 2020. 
  2. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1910: 466. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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