Imma Albofascia
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''Imma albofascia'' 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 ...
of the family
Immidae Immoidea is a superfamily of pantropical moths containing only the family Immidae comprising ten genera with around 250 species, over half of them in the genus '' Imma''. Many are brightly coloured and diurnal. The position of this group is cur ...
. It is known from
Ambon Island Ambon Island is part of the Maluku Islands of Indonesia. The island has an area of and is mountainous, well watered, and fertile. Ambon Island consists of two territories: the city of Ambon, Maluku, Ambon to the south and various districts ('' ...
(Indonesia),
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
and southern
India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
. 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 22–23 mm. The forewings are fuscous, sprinkled with dark fuscous and with a patch of dark fuscous suffusion extending along the costa from the base to five-sixths and reaching two-thirds across the wing, terminated posteriorly by a tornal blotch of whitish suffusion obscurely extended towards the apex (but this blotch is sometimes almost obsolete). An almost marginal series of ochreous-whitish marks is found around the apex and tornus. The hindwings are dark fuscous.Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1906 (2): 198
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Immidae Moths described in 1861 Moths of Asia {{Immidae-stub