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''Scaptesylomima bicoloroides'' 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 ...
and the sole species of genus ''Scaptesylomima''. It was described by Lutz W. R. Kobes in 1989. It is found on
Sumatra Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...
.Kobes, L. W. R. (1989) "A new genus and five new species from Sumatra (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Euteliinae, Ophiderinae)". ''Heterocera Sumatrana''. 2(7): 175-184.


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Immidae Moths of Indonesia Monotypic moth genera {{Immidae-stub