Imma lyrifera
| Imma lyrifera | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Immidae |
| Genus: | Imma |
| Species: | I. lyrifera |
| Binomial name | |
| Imma lyrifera Meyrick, 1910 | |
Imma lyrifera is a moth in the Immidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1910. It is found in New Guinea[1] and Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.[2]
The wingspan is 18-19 mm. The forewings are fuscous-purple, suffused with blue towards the costa and the markings orange. There are short costal and median streaks from the base and an irregular rather outwards-curved streak from the middle of the costa to three-fourths of the dorsum, dilated on the costa, interrupted in the middle and near the dorsum. A series of eight or nine interneural dashes is found between this and the following streak, but mostly not reaching either. There is a terminal streak, wide on the costa and attenuated to the tornus, the anterior edge concave, enclosing a blackish striga from the costa. The hindwings are hyaline, with the veins blackish-grey and with a moderately broad rather dark grey band along the costa and a moderate blackish-grey terminal fascia, becoming abruptly very narrow near the tornus.[3]