Imma platyxantha: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Immidae
- Genus
- Imma
- Species
- Imma platyxantha
- Scientific Name
- Imma platyxantha
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Imma platyxantha
Imma platyxantha is a moth in the family Immidae. It was described by Alfred Jefferis Turner in 1913. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.
The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are pale fuscous, with large yellow-ochreous blotches and a small subcostal basal spot, as well as a large squarish blotch on the costa near the base, nearly touching a smaller spot on one-fourth of the dorsum. There is a second rounded spot on the costa before the middle, nearly touching a large squarish blotch on the mid-dorsum, as well as a spot on the costa at two-thirds and a triangular spot on the costa immediately before the apex. A dark fuscous terminal line does not extend to the tornus. The hindwings are dark fuscous.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Imma accuralis
- Imma acosma
- Imma acrognampta
- Imma acroptila
- Imma albifasciella
- Imma albofascia
- Imma amphixantha
- Imma arenaria
- Imma aristogiton
- Imma arsisceles
- Imma asaphoneura
- Imma atrosignata
- Imma atrotacta
- Imma aulonias
- Imma autodoxa
- Imma bilineella
- Imma boeta
- Imma campsigramma
- Imma cancanopis
- Imma capsigramma
- Imma chlorosphena
- Imma chrysoplaca
- Imma cincta
- Imma ciniata
- Imma costipuncta
- Imma crocozela
- Imma diluticiliata
- Imma dioptrias
- Imma ergasia
- Imma evelina
- Imma flavibasa
- Imma flaviceps
- Imma francenella
- Imma grammarcha
- Imma homocrossa
- Imma hyphantis
- Imma inclinata
- Imma infima
- Imma itygramma
- Imma lathidora
- Imma lithosioides
- Imma loxoscia
- Imma lyrifera
- Imma mackwoodii
- Imma marileutis
- Imma marmarozona
- Imma melanosphena
- Imma monastica
- Imma monocosma
- Imma mylias
- Imma nephelatma
- Imma niphopelta
- Imma obliquefasciata
- Imma periploca
- Imma platyxantha
- Imma psithyristis
- Imma psoricopa
- Imma quaestoria
- Imma rugosalis
- Imma selenaea
- Imma semicitra
- Imma spanista
- Imma steganota
- Imma stilbiota
- Imma tetrascia
- Imma tormentata
- Imma trachyptila
- Imma transversella
- Imma tricrocota
- Imma vaticina
- Imma xanthosticha














