| Streptoperas luteata | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Drepanidae |
| Genus: | Streptoperas |
| Species: | S. luteata |
| Binomial name | |
| Streptoperas luteata Hampson, 1895 | |
Streptoperas luteata is a moth in the family Drepanidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1895. [1] It is found in the north-eastern Himalayas and on Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Bali and Sulawesi. [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.
The Drepanidae is a family of moths with about 660 species described worldwide. They are generally divided in three subfamilies which share the same type of hearing organ. Thyatirinae, previously often placed in their own family, bear a superficial resemblance to Noctuidae. Many species in the Drepanid family have a distinctively hook-shaped apex to the forewing, leading to their common name of hook-tips.
Sir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.
The wingspan is about 44 mm. Adults are yellow, suffused and irrorated (sprinkled) with red brown, the forewings with an indistinct antemedial line which is highly angled in the cell. There are two specks at the end of the cell and the inner margin is more yellow and crossed by numerous indistinct waved rufous lines. There is also a waved submarginal line and some white subapical spots. The hindwings have a yellow subbasal area, crossed by waved rufous lines and there is a black speck at the end of the cell, as well as a double postmedial line. The area beyond it is yellow, crossed by waved rufous lines. There is a more distinct submarginal waved line and a rufous marginal band from vein 3 to the anal angle. [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).
