| Lethata leucothea | |
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| Species: | L. leucothea |
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| Lethata leucothea (Busck, 1914) | |
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Lethata leucothea is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by August Busck in 1914. It is found in Panama. [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.
August Busck was a Danish entomologist who became an American citizen. Busck was an employee of the Bureau of Entomology within USDA. He is best known for his work with microlepidoptera, of which he described over 600 species. His collections of Lepidoptera from North America and the Panama Canal Zone are held by the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are pale ochreous grey, the costal edge narrowly bright terra cotta and the dorsal edge narrowly bright ochreous brown. There is a large, oval, light yellow spot at the end of the cell, the edged posteriorly with dark ochreous. An outwardly curved transverse row of small blackish brown dots is found from the apical third of the costa across the wing and a similar, parallel, but fainter and not so complete, row of dark brown scales runs from the middle of the costa, touching the yellow spot. A still fainter and less complete line of dots is found at the basal third. The hindwings are light ochreous fuscous. [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).