Imma Thymora
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''Imma thymora'' 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 ...
in the family Immidae. It was described by
Edward Meyrick Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854, in Ramsbury – 31 March 1938, at Thornhanger, Marlborough) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern m ...
in 1906. It is found in
Tefé Tefé, known in early accounts as Teffé, is a municipality in the state of Amazonas, northern Brazil. Location Tefé is located about 525 km by air or 595 km by river to the west of Manaus on the south bank of the Rio Solimões (th ...
, Brazil. 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 ...
is 21–22 mm. The forewings are dark brown, slightly reddish tinged, strewn with small irregular ill-defined whitish-ochreous spots, nearly obsolete on the apical area beyond an irregular angulated series from the costa beyond the middle to the dorsum before the tornus. There is a terminal series of pale dots. The hindwings are dark fuscous.''Transactions of the Entomological Society of London''. 1906 (2): 203.


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Moths described in 1906 Immidae Moths of South America {{Immidae-stub