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Imma lyrifera

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Imma lyrifera
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I. lyrifera
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Imma lyrifera
Meyrick, 1910

Imma lyrifera is a moth in the family Immidae. 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]

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