| Chlamydastis leucoptila | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Depressariidae |
| Genus: | Chlamydastis |
| Species: | C. leucoptila |
| Binomial name | |
| Chlamydastis leucoptila (Meyrick, 1918) | |
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Chlamydastis leucoptila is a moth in the Depressariidae family. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1918. It is found in French Guiana and Guatemala. [1]
Moths comprise a group of insects related to butterflies, belonging to the order Lepidoptera. Most lepidopterans are moths, and there are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of which have yet to be described. Most species of moth are nocturnal, but there are also crepuscular and diurnal species.
Depressariidae is a family of moths. It has formerly been treated as a subfamily of Gelechiidae, but is now recognised as a separate family, comprising about 2300 species worldwide.
Edward Meyrick FRS was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on Microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern Microlepidoptera systematics.
The wingspan is about 21 mm. The forewings are pale brown, faintly rosy-tinged, with a few scattered black specks and small grey spots on the costa at one-fourth, before the middle, and at three-fifths, from the third a strongly curved faint grey line marked with several black dots runs to the dorsum before the tornus. The stigmata are represented by white tufts, the plical obliquely beyond the first discal and a grey blotch extending on the dorsum from one-fourth to four-fifths and reaching to the fold, mixed blackish anteriorly. A blackish spot adjoining the posterior line is found just below the middle, beneath this a spot of whitish suffusion edged posteriorly by a black dot, and some whitish suffusion above the tornus. The hindwings are dark grey. [2]
The wingspan 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 60.93 metres, and a wandering albatross caught in 1965 had a wingspan of 3.63 metres, the official record for a living bird. The term wingspan, more technically extent, is also used for other winged animals such as pterosaurs, bats, insects, etc., and other fixed-wing aircraft such as ornithopters. In humans, the term wingspan also refers to the arm span, which is distance between the length from one end of an individual's arms to the other when raised parallel to the ground at shoulder height at a 90º angle. Former professional basketball player Manute Bol stands at 7 ft 7 in (2.31 m) and owns one of the largest wingspans at 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m).