''Imma accuralis'' is a

moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...

in the family

Immidae Immoidea is a superfamily of pantropical moths containing only the family Immidae comprising ten genera with around 250 species, over half of them in the genus ''Imma''. Many are brightly coloured and Diurnality, diurnal. The position of this gro ...

. It was described by Francis Walker in 1859. It is found in

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ...

. The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingsp ...

is about 20 mm. The forewings are ochreous fuscous with a suffused darker discal dot or mark at three-fifths and a small ochreous-whitish oblique costal mark before the apex. There is a dark fuscous terminal line. The hindwings are dark fuscous, lighter towards the base.''Transactions of the Entomological Society of London'' 1906 (2): 172

References

Moths described in 1859 Imma Moths of Asia {{Immidae-stub