''Imma'' is a large

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

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 ...

s in the

obtectomera The Obtectomera is a clade of macro-moths and butterflies, comprising over 100,000 species in at least 12 superfamilies. Taxonomy The Obtectomera includes the following 12 superfamilies: * Whalleyanoidea Minet, 1991 * Thyridoidea Herrich-Sc ...

n " micromoth"

family Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society. Idea ...

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 ...

. This is the

type genus In biological taxonomy, the type genus is the genus which defines a biological family and the root of the family name. Zoological nomenclature According to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, "The name-bearing type of a nominal ...

of its family. They are widespread in the

tropics The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator. They are defined in latitude by the Tropic of Cancer in the Northern Hemisphere at N and the Tropic of Capricorn in the Southern Hemisphere at S. The tropics are also refer ...

, with most species occurring between the

Himalayas The Himalayas, or Himalaya (; ; ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the planet's highest peaks, including the very highest, Mount Everest. Over 10 ...

and the

Oceania Oceania (, , ) is a geographical region that includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Spanning the Eastern and Western hemispheres, Oceania is estimated to have a land area of and a population of around 44.5 million ...

n region; the genus is furthermore plentiful in the

Neotropics The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In bioge ...

, but not very diverse in the

Afrotropics The Afrotropical realm is one of Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Africa south of the Sahara Desert, the majority of the Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, southern Iran and extreme southwestern Pakistan, and the island ...

.Clarke (1986), and see sources in Savela (2010)

Selected species

Species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriat ...

of ''Imma'' include: * '' Imma accuralis'' (Walker, 859 * '' Imma acosma'' (Turner, 1900) * '' Imma acrognampta'' Meyrick, 1930 * ''

Imma acroptila ''Imma acroptila'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1906. It is found in Sierra Leone. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wing ...

'' Meyrick, 1906 * ''

Imma aeluropis ''Imma aeluropis'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1906. It is found on Borneo. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. F ...

'' Meyrick, 1906 * ''

Imma albifasciella ''Imma albifasciella'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Arnold Pagenstecher in 1900. It is found on the Bismarck Archipelago and in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland. The wingspan The wingspan (or jus ...

'' (Pagenstecher, 1900) * ''

Imma albofascia ''Imma albofascia'' is a moth of the family Immidae. It is known from Ambon Island (Indonesia), Sri Lanka and southern India. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wi ...

'' (Felder, 1861) * ''

Imma albotaeniana ''Imma albotaeniana'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Christian Johannes Amandus Sauber in 1901. It is found on Java and the Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Phi ...

'' (Sauber, 1901) * ''

Imma alienella ''Imma alienella'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1864. It is found on Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of ...

'' (Walker, 1864) * ''

Imma amphixantha ''Imma amphixantha'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1906. It is found on Borneo. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. ...

'' Meyrick, 1906 * ''

Imma ancistrota ''Imma ancistrota'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1912. It is found on New Guinea. The wingspan is about 18 mm. The forewings are dark lilac fuscous, with ochreous-yellow markings, a spot at the base ...

'' Meyrick, 1912 * ''

Imma arenaria ''Imma'' is a large genus of moths in the obtectomeran " micromoth" family Immidae. This is the type genus of its family. They are widespread in the tropics, with most species occurring between the Himalayas and the Oceanian region; the genus is ...

'' Diakonoff, 1955 * ''

Imma aritogiton ''Imma aritogiton'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Alexey Diakonoff in 1955. It is found in New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with ...

'' Diakonoff, 1955 * ''

Imma arsisceles ''Imma arsisceles'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1937. It is found in South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bound ...

'' Meyrick, 1937 * '' Imma asaphoneura'' Meyrick, 1934 * '' Imma assita'' J.F.G.Clarke, 1986 * ''

Imma atrosignata ''Imma atrosignata'' is a moth of the family Immidae. It is known from Ambon Island 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 Boe ...

'' (Felder, 1861) * '' Imma atrotacta'' Diakonoff, 1955 * '' Imma aulonias'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma autodoxa'' (Meyrick, 1886) * '' Imma auxobathra'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma bifulminata'' Meyrick, 1930 * '' Imma bilineella'' (Snellen, 1885) * '' Imma boeta'' (Druce, 1898) * '' Imma caelestis'' Meyrick, 1906 * ''

Imma campsigramma ''Imma'' is a large genus of moths in the obtectomeran " micromoth" family Immidae. This is the type genus of its family. They are widespread in the tropics, with most species occurring between the Himalayas and the Oceanian region; the genus is ...

'' Meyrick, 1938 * '' Imma cancanopis'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma catapsesta'' Meyrick, 1934 * ''

Imma chasmatica ''Imma chasmatica'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1906. It is found in the Indian states of Sikkim and Assam. The wingspan is 31–33 mm. The forewings are fuscous finely sprinkled with blackish ...

'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma chloromelalis'' (Walker,

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* '' Imma chloroplintha'' Meyrick, 1928 * '' Imma chlorosoma'' Meyrick, 1906 * ''

Imma chlorosphena ''Imma chlorosphena'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1906. It is found in Sri Lanka. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wing ...

'' Meyrick, 1906 * ''

Imma chlorospila ''Imma'' is a large genus of moths in the obtectomeran " micromoth" family Immidae. This is the type genus of its family. They are widespread in the tropics, with most species occurring between the Himalayas and the Oceanian region; the genus is ...

'' Meyrick, 1923 * '' Imma chrysoplaca'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma cincta'' (Druce, 1898) * '' Imma ciniata'' (Druce, 1898) * '' Imma cladophragma'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma confluens'' Meyrick, 1931 * ''

Imma congrualis ''Imma congrualis'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Walsingham in 1900. It is found in New Guinea. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. ...

'' Walsingham, 1900 * '' Imma cosmoplaca'' Meyrick, 1930 * ''

Imma costipuncta ''Imma costipuncta'' is a moth of the family Immidae. It is known from Ambon Island 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 Boe ...

'' (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874) * '' Imma crocozela'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma cuneata'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma cymbalodes'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma cyclostoma'' Meyrick, 1906 * ''

Imma dedicata ''Imma dedicata'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1925. It is found in India. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For ...

'' Meyrick, 1925 * '' Imma denticulata'' Meyrick, 1910 * '' Imma diaphana'' (Pagenstecher, 1884) * ''

Imma diluticiliata ''Imma diluticiliata'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Thomas de Grey in 1900. It is found in India (Assam) and on Sulu. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip ...

'' (Walsingham, 1900) * ''

Imma dioptrias ''Imma dioptrias'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1906. It is found on New Guinea. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingti ...

'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma dipselia'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma epichlaena'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma epicomia'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma ergasia'' (Meyrick, 1905) * '' Imma eriospila'' Meyrick, 1922 * '' Imma euglypta'' Meyrick, 1931 * ''

Imma evelina ''Imma'' is a large genus of moths in the obtectomeran " micromoth" family Immidae. This is the type genus of its family. They are widespread in the tropics, with most species occurring between the Himalayas and the Oceanian region; the genus is ...

'' Meyrick, 1938 * '' Imma feaniensis'' J.F.G.Clarke, 1986 * '' Imma flammula'' Diakonoff, 1978 * '' Imma flavibasa'' (Moore, 1888) * '' Imma flaviceps'' (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874) * ''

Imma francenella ''Imma'' is a large genus of moths in the obtectomeran " micromoth" family Immidae. This is the type genus of its family. They are widespread in the tropics, with most species occurring between the Himalayas and the Oceanian region; the genus is ...

'' Legrand, 1966 * '' Imma fulminatrix'' Meyrick, 1934 * ''

Imma gloriana ''Imma gloriana'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by John Frederick Gates Clarke in 1986. It is found in French Polynesia )Territorial motto: ( en, "Great Tahiti of the Golden Haze") , anthem = , song_type = Regional anthem ...

'' J.F.G.Clarke, 1986 * ''

Imma grammarcha ''Imma grammarcha'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1905. It is found in Sri Lanka and possibly on Borneo. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wing ...

'' (Meyrick, 1905) * '' Imma halonitis'' Meyrick, 1920 * '' Imma harpagacma'' Meyrick, 1935 * '' Imma hectaea'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma hemixanthella'' (Holland, 1900) * '' Imma heppneri'' J.F.G.Clarke, 1986 * '' Imma homalotis'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma homocrossa'' Meyrick, 1930 * '' Imma hyphantis'' Meyrick, 1906 * ''

Imma impariseta ''Imma impariseta'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by John Frederick Gates Clarke in 1986. It is found in French Polynesia )Territorial motto: ( en, "Great Tahiti of the Golden Haze") , anthem = , song_type = Regional anthe ...

'' J.F.G.Clarke, 1986 * '' Imma inaptalis'' (Walker,

* ''

Imma inclinata ''Imma'' is a large genus of moths in the obtectomeran " micromoth" family Immidae. This is the type genus of its family. They are widespread in the tropics, with most species occurring between the Himalayas and the Oceanian region; the genus is ...

'' Diakonoff, 1955 * ''

Imma infima ''Imma infima'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1930. It is found on the Comoros, Mauritius, Réunion and in Sierra Leone.

'' Meyrick, 1930 * '' Imma itygramma'' Meyrick, 1928 * ''

Imma leniflua ''Imma leniflua'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1931. It is found in Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North Am ...

'' Meyrick, 1931 * '' Imma leucomystis'' Meyrick, 1923 * ''

Imma lichneopa ''Imma lichneopa'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Oswald Bertram Lower in 1903. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is ...

'' (Lower, 1903) * '' Imma lithosioides'' (Moore, 1887) * '' Imma loxoscia'' Turner, 1913 * '' Imma lyrifera'' Meyrick, 1910 * '' Imma lysidesma'' Meyrick, 1906 * ''

Imma mackwoodi ''Imma mackwoodi'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Frederic Moore in 1887. It is found in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ila� ...

'' (Moore, 1887) * '' Imma marileutis'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma megalyntis'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma melanosphena'' Meyrick, 1918 * '' Imma melotoma'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma mesochorda'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma metachlora'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma metriodoxa'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma microsticta'' (Hampson, 1897) * '' Imma monastica'' Meyrick, 1910 * '' Imma monocosma'' Diakonoff & Arita, 1979 * '' Imma mormopa'' Meyrick, 1910 * '' Imma mylias'' * '' Imma nephelatma'' Meyrick, 1927 * '' Imma nephallactis'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma nephelastra'' Meyrick, 1906 * ''

Imma neurota ''Imma neurota'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1906. It is found on Borneo. The wingspan is 16–20 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous with ochreous-yellow markings, in males with a short streak benea ...

'' Meyrick, 1906 * ''

Imma niphopelta ''Imma niphopelta'' is a moth of the family Immidae. It is found in New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the south ...

'' Meyrick, 1930 * '' Imma niveiciliella'' (Snellen, 1885) * '' Imma nubigena'' Meyrick, 1910 * '' Imma obliquefasciata'' Walsingham, 1900 * '' Imma ochrilactea'' Meyrick, 1934 * '' Imma ochrophara'' Bradley, 1962 * ''

Imma otoptera ''Imma otoptera'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1906. It is found on Borneo. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. Fo ...

'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma oxypselia'' Meyrick, 1928 * '' Imma panopta'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma paratma'' Meyrick, 1912 * '' Imma pardalina'' (Walker, 1863) * '' Imma penthinoides'' (Pagenstecher, 1884) * ''

Imma periploca ''Imma periploca'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1910. It is found on New Guinea. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingti ...

'' Meyrick, 1910 * '' Imma phalerata'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma philomena'' J.F.G.Clarke, 1986 * ''

Imma philonoma ''Imma philonoma'' is a moth of the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1925. It is found on Fiji and Samoa. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wi ...

'' Meyrick, 1925 * '' Imma phthorosema'' Meyrick, 1912 * ''

Imma platyxantha ''Imma platyxantha'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1913. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane ...

'' Turner, 1913 * '' Imma porpanthes'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma priozona'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma procrossa'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma protocrossa'' Meyrick, 1909 * ''

Imma psithyristis ''Imma psithyristis'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1906. It is found on the Solomon Islands. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the ...

'' Meyrick, 1906 * ''

Imma psoricopa ''Imma psoricopa'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1906. It is found in Sri Lanka. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingti ...

'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma pyrophthalma'' Meyrick, 1937 * '' Imma quadrivittana'' (Walker, 1863) * '' Imma quaestoria'' Meyrick, 1911 * '' Imma rotia'' J.F.G.Clarke, 1986 * '' Imma rugosalis'' Walker, 859/small> * '' Imma selenaea'' Diakonoff, 1955 * ''

Imma semicitra ''Imma semicitra'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1937. It is found in India and Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்� ...

'' Meyrick, 1937 * '' Imma semiclara'' Meyrick, 1929 * ''

Imma spanista ''Imma spanista'' is a moth of the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1930. It is found on New Guinea and Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially t ...

'' Meyrick, 1930 * '' Imma steganota'' Meyrick, 1914 * '' Imma stilbiota'' (Lower, 1903) * '' Imma strepsizona'' Meyrick, 1906 * ''

Imma synconista ''Imma synconista'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1918. It is found in Kanara, India. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wi ...

'' Meyrick, 1918 * ''

Imma tesseraria ''Imma tesseraria'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1906. It is found on Borneo. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. ...

'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma tetrascia'' Meyrick, 1912 * '' Imma tetrope'' (Diakonoff, 1978) * '' Imma thianthes'' Meyrick, 1927 * '' Imma thymora'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma thyriditis'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma torophracta'' Meyrick, 1935 * '' Imma trachyptila'' Meyrick 1921 * '' Imma transversella'' (Snellen, 1878) * '' Imma triardis'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma trichinota'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma tyrocnista'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma uranitis'' Meyrick, 1910 * '' Imma vaticina'' Meyrick, 1912 * '' Imma viola'' (Pagenstecher, 1886) * '' Imma xantharcha'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma xanthosticha'' (Turner, 1936) * ''

Imma xanthomela ''Imma xanthomela'' is a moth of the family Immidae. It is found on Sulawesi Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated ...

'' Meyrick, 1930

Selected former species

* ''

Imma grammatistis ''Bursadella grammatistis'' is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1906. It is found on New Guinea. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the oth ...

'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma minatrix'' Meyrick, 1906 * '' Imma radiata'' (Walsingham, 1897)

Footnotes

References

* * * (2011): Australian Faunal Directory &ndash
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Version of 2011-MAY-11. Retrieved 2011-DEC-22. * (1986): Pyralidae and Microlepidoptera of the Marquesas Archipelago. ''Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology'' 416: 1–485
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(214 MB!) * (2010): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms &ndash

Version of 2010-JUN-07. Retrieved 2011-DEC-22. {{Taxonbar, from=Q6004251 Immidae Moth genera