Bursadella Dichroalis
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''Bursadella dichroalis'' is a
moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
in the family Immidae. It was described by Snellen in 1880. It is found in
Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...
and on
Sumatra Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...
. The
wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ...
is about 20 mm. Adults are bright golden yellow, the forewings with the outer half black suffused with purple and with a postmedial yellow spot on the costa, its inner edge slightly angled outwards at lower end of the cell. The hindwings have the outer area black, broad at the costa, tapering to the anal angle.Description of ''Scaptesylix hemichryseis'' in Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1895 (2): 283


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Moths described in 1880 Immidae Moths of Asia {{Immidae-stub