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Imma monastica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Immidae
Genus:	Imma
Species:	I. monastica
Binomial name
Imma monastica Meyrick, 1910

Imma monastica is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1910. It is found on Ambon Island in the Moluccas of Indonesia.

The wingspan is 17–21 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous, faintly purplish tinged. There is a wedge-shaped ochreous-white mark from the costa near the apex and a fine white denticulate terminal line. The hindwings are dark fuscous, lighter anteriorly. There are broad median and dorsal prismatic-violet-tinged hyaline (glass like) longitudinal patches, confluent towards the base, the upper extending to about three-fourths, the lower nearly to the termen.

References

1. Savela, Markku, ed. (September 6, 2019). "Imma Walker, [1859]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 2, 2020.
2. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1910: 465. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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