| Chlamydastis melanonca | |
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| Species: | C. melanonca |
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| Chlamydastis melanonca (Meyrick, 1915) | |
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Chlamydastis melanonca is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1915. It is found in Guyana. [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 white, with scattered grey specks and a small blackish mark on the base of the costa and three blackish spots on the costa, where rise faint lines of grey irroration, the first from one-fifth of the costa, oblique, obsolete below the middle, the second from before the middle of the costa very obliquely outwards, bent and passing behind the discal mark to the fold, obsolete on the dorsum, the third from two-thirds of the costa to the dorsum before the tornus, curved outwards on the upper half. A white tuft is found on the fold representing the plical stigma and there is a rather oblique strong black linear mark on the end of the cell, edged anteriorly with raised white scales. There is a curved series of faint small cloudy fuscous spots near the apical and terminal margin, one below the middle of the termen larger and more conspicuous. There are some small marginal dots of fuscous irroration around the apex and termen. The hindwings are grey, paler towards the base. [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).