Imma melanosphena Meyrick, 1918 (wrongly identified as Imma atrosignata Turner, 1913) IMMIDAE,   IMMOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of Dominic Funnell, Weipa, Queensland)

These adult moths have brown forewings, each with a vague dark spot near the middle. The hindwings are brown, each with a prominent pair of black stripes. The wingspan is about 2 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

This species has been found in Australia in

Queensland.

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
Exotic Microlepidoptera,
Volume 2 (1918), p. 192.

A. Jefferis Turner,
Studies in Australian Microlepidoptera,
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
Volume 38 (1913), pp. 206-207.

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(written 15 March 2019, updated 18 May 2024)