| Phiala marshalli | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Eupterotidae |
| Genus: | Phiala |
| Species: | P. marshalli |
| Binomial name | |
| Phiala marshalli Aurivillius, 1904 | |
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Phiala marshalli is a moth in the Eupterotidae family. It was described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1904. [1] It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Katanga), Tanzania and Zimbabwe. [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.
Eupterotidae is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera with more than 300 described species.
Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius was a Swedish entomologist.
The wingspan is 35–41 mm. The wings are very pale sulphur yellow or sometimes pure white, the forewings with seven to eight black spots beyond the middle on veins one to seven and on the fold in the submedian interspace. The spots are disposed in an oblique nearly straight or slightly incurved line. The hindwings have a nearly straight, transverse series of six to seven small black spots beyond the middle. [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).
