| Eoophyla nyasalis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Genus: | Eoophyla |
| Species: | E. nyasalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Eoophyla nyasalis (Hampson, 1917) | |
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Eoophyla nyasalis is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by Hampson in 1917. [1] It is found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Zambia. [2]
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.
The Crambidae are the grass moth family of lepidopterans. They are variable in appearance, the nominal subfamily Crambinae taking up closely folded postures on grass stems where they are inconspicuous, while other subfamilies include brightly coloured and patterned insects which rest in wing-spread attitudes.
Sir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.
The wingspan is 20–24 mm. The base of the forewings is pale orange, with a subbasal scattering of fuscous scales. The median area is suffused with fuscous and there is an orange streak between the middle of the costa and the tornus. The base of the hindwings is whitish with an orange antemedian fascia, suffused with fuscous scales. Adults are on wing from May to June and from August to March. [3]
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).
