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| Stenoma oxyscia Meyrick, 1922 | |
Stenoma oxyscia is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1922. 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.
Edward Meyrick FRS was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on Microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern Microlepidoptera systematics.
The wingspan is about 21 mm. The forewings are whitish-grey ochreous with a blackish dot towards the costa at one-seventh, and a minute one on the fold near the base. The plical and second discal stigmata are blackish and there is a faint series of cloudy dots of fuscous irroration from beneath the middle of the costa very obliquely outwards, very acutely angulated between the second discal and apex, then passing close beneath the second discal to the fold. A subterminal series of cloudy dark fuscous dots is found from beneath the costa at two-thirds insinuate obliquely outwards, on the discal area strongly excurved to near the termen, then insinuate to near four-fifths of the dorsum. There is also a marginal series of dark fuscous dots around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are rather dark 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).