| Heteralcis rhizophora | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lecithoceridae |
| Genus: | Heteralcis |
| Species: | H. rhizophora |
| Binomial name | |
| Heteralcis rhizophora (Meyrick, 1919) | |
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Heteralcis rhizophora is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1919. It is found in India (Madras). [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.
The Lecithoceridae, or long-horned moths, are a family of small moths described by Simon Le Marchand in 1947. Although lecithocerids are found throughout the world, the great majority are found in the Indomalaya ecozone and the southern part of the Palaearctic ecozone.
India, also known as the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh largest country by area and with more than 1.3 billion people, it is the second most populous country as well as the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, while its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.
The wingspan is about 15 mm. The forewings are ochreous-brown, the basal area irrorated dark brown and with two cloudy whitish dots at the base and three connected with the extensions of the following fascia. There is a moderate slightly oblique yellow fascia at one-fourth, the anterior edge very irregular, posterior margined whitish. A triangular whitish blotch posteriorly suffused light yellow is found on the costa about two-thirds, reaching half across the wing and there is a small irregular whitish spot above the tornus. The apical and terminal edge are slenderly suffused yellow. The hindwings are whitish-ochreous, with some longitudinal grey irroration in the disc and a submedian groove forming a deep furrow, lined with pale yellowish hairs. [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).
