| Hierangela doxanthes | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Gelechiidae |
| Genus: | Hierangela |
| Species: | H. doxanthes |
| Binomial name | |
| Hierangela doxanthes Meyrick, 1929 | |
Hierangela doxanthes is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1929. It is found in New Guinea. [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 Gelechiidae are a family of moths commonly referred to as twirler moths or gelechiid moths. They are the namesake family of the huge and little-studied superfamily Gelechioidea, and the family's taxonomy has been subject to considerable dispute. These are generally very small moths with narrow, fringed wings. The larvae of most species feed internally on various parts of their host plants, sometimes causing galls. Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga) is a host plant common to many species of the family, particularly of the genus Chionodes, which as a result is more diverse in North America than usual for Gelechioidea.
New Guinea is a large island separated by a shallow sea from the rest of the Australian continent. It is the world's second-largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 785,753 km2 (303,381 sq mi), and the largest wholly or partly within the Southern Hemisphere and Oceania.
The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are clear yellow with an oblique wedge-shaped crimson spot on the dorsum towards the base and an irregular crimson streak from the base beneath the costa through the middle of the disc to the termen beneath the apex, connected beneath by a blackish-grey mark before the middle with an elongate wedge-shaped crimson spot lying along the middle of the dorsum, slightly interrupted about the middle and more strongly at three-fourths. There is a blackish dot beneath the costa at two-fifths, and a short fine longitudinal line at four-fifths, connected by a crimson dash with a median streak on the termen. An inwards-oblique crimson streak is found from the tornus to beneath the median streak at two-thirds and there is a crimson terminal streak marked with a blackish dot beneath the apex. The hindwings are pale rosy-pink, the basal two-fifths grey-whitish. [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).