''Imma costipuncta'' 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 curr ...

. 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 ('' ...

of Indonesia. 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 20–21 mm. The forewings are rather dark fuscous, slightly purplish-tinged and with a hardly darker cloudy discal dot at three-fifths and a whitish-ochreous triangular dot on the costa beyond the middle. There is a whitish-ochreous streak from the costa before the apex to the termen above the tornus, triangularly dilated towards the costa, confluent at the extremities with a toothed whitish-ochreous line along the termen. The hindwings are fuscous.Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1906 (2): 179

References

Immidae Moths described in 1874 Moths of Indonesia {{Immidae-stub