| Tisis polemarcha | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lecithoceridae |
| Genus: | Tisis |
| Species: | T. polemarcha |
| Binomial name | |
| Tisis polemarcha Meyrick, 1926 | |
Tisis polemarcha is a moth in the Lecithoceridae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1926. It is found on Borneo [1] and Sabah. [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 Lecithoceridae, or long-horned moths, are a family of small moths described by Simon Le Marchand in 1947. Although lecithocerids are found throughout the world, the great majority are found in the Indomalaya ecozone and the southern part of the Palaearctic ecozone.
Borneo is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and east of Sumatra.
The wingspan is about 26 mm. The forewings are light orange with thick costal and dorsal and slender median dark grey streaks from the base to one-fifth, the costal marked with blue-leaden-metallic, sending a curved undefined fascia of dark grey suffusion mixed with blue-leaden-metallic scales to near the dorsum before the middle. There is a broad dark grey streak narrowed posteriorly along the costa from two-fifths to the apex, almost confluent with the preceding, leaving the costal edge yellow. A dark grey wedge-shaped blotch extends from the disc at three-fourths to the lower part of the termen, the apex anterior. The hindwings are dark grey, the discal area from near the base to near termen, and the costal area suffused ochreous-whitish, a series of long erect ochreous-whitish hairs along the submedian fold and a short tuft of ochreous-whitish hairs on the costal gland at one-third. [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).
