| Falculina lepidota | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Depressariidae |
| Genus: | Falculina |
| Species: | F. lepidota |
| Binomial name | |
| Falculina lepidota Meyrick, 1916 | |
Falculina lepidota is a moth of the Depressariidae family. It is found in French Guiana. [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.
French Guiana is an overseas department and region of France, on the north Atlantic coast of South America in the Guyanas. It borders Brazil to the east and south and Suriname to the west. Since 1981, when Belize became independent, French Guiana has been the only territory of the mainland Americas that is still part of a European country.
The wingspan is 28–29 mm for males and about 36 mm for females. The forewings are light brownish, paler or suffused with pale greyish-ochreous towards the base of the costa and with the costal edge ferruginous or brownish-ochreous. The cell and anterior half of the dorsal area are strewn with small cloudy suffused blackish spots and there is a series of indistinct blackish minute strigulae or dots from above the end of the cell towards the middle of the termen, then angulated and incurved to the dorsum before the tornus. There is also a terminal series of cloudy blackish dots. The hindwings are dark fuscous in males, with the modified scales of the lower margin of the cell and an area beneath this lighter and fuscous, with the apical edge tinged with ochreous. The hindwings of the females are ochreous-yellow, with the basal half pale 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).
