Imma niphopelta

Imma niphopelta is a moth of the family Immidae. It is found in New Guinea.[1]

Imma niphopelta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Immidae
Genus:
Imma
Species:
I. niphopelta
Binomial name
Imma niphopelta
Meyrick, 1930

The wingspan is about 21 mm. The forewings are purple-blackish, the costal edge grey and with a white submedian streak almost from the base to near the middle and some blue-leaden suffusion above this, and at apex the beneath it, and a streak beneath the anterior half of the costa, stronger posteriorly. There is a transverse-oval white blotch in the disc beyond the middle. The hindwings are bright iridescent purple-hyaline, with the veins dark fuscous and a dark fuscous fascia around the costa and apex, becoming narrow and irregular-edged on the upper half of the termen, on the rest of the termen linear with acute projections on the submedian and subdorsal folds.[2]

Subspecies
  • Imma niphopelta niphopelta
  • Imma niphopelta lutescens Diakonoff, 1955

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Imma niphopelta". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 7, 2018.
  2. Exotic Microlep. 4: 4


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