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''Imma procrossa'' is a
moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
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 diurnal. The position of this group is curr ...
. It was described by
Edward Meyrick Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854, in Ramsbury – 31 March 1938, at Thornhanger, Marlborough) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern micr ...
in 1906. It is found on
Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and eas ...
. The
wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ...
is about 24 mm. The forewings are rather dark ochreous fuscous, slightly purplish tinged, streaked with ochreous between the veins and in the cell, and towards the costa anteriorly with orange. All veins are marked by fine ochreous lines, terminating in a submarginal yellow-ochreous streak from the middle of the costa to the tornus, edged posteriorly with dark fuscous, and leaving a narrow fuscous border all around the costa and termen. The hindwings are dark grey, lighter towards the base.''Transactions of the Entomological Society of London''. 1906 (2): 184.


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Moths described in 1906 Immidae Moths of Asia Taxa named by Edward Meyrick {{Immidae-stub