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| Species: | U. ochropera |
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| Udea ochropera (Hampson, 1913) | |
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Udea ochropera is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1913. It is found in Colombia [1] and Mexico. [2]
Moths are a polyphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. 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 Crambidae are the grass moth family of lepidopterans. They are variable in appearance, the nominal subfamily Crambinae taking up closely folded postures on grass stems where they are inconspicuous, while other subfamilies include brightly coloured and patterned insects which rest in wing-spread attitudes.
Sir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.
The wingspan is about 26 mm. The forewings are ochreous, irrorated with dark brown and suffused with purplish fuscous except on the costal area and the inner margin. The apical area is ochreous, with a dark streak below vein 8 and the antemedial line is blackish, angled outwards below the costa and bent outwards to the inner margin. There is a black annulus in the middle of the cell and a narrow elliptical discoidal annulus defined by black. The postmedial line is blackish, slightly defined on the outer side by ochreous, obliquely downcurved to vein 6, excurved and slightly waved to vein 2, then bent inwards to below the end of the cell and again excurved. There are some small black spots on the costa towards the apex, as well as a blackish terminal line with ochreous points at the veins. The hindwings are semihyaline white with black points at the angles of the cell. The apical area and the termen to vein 2 are suffused with brown, the termen with blackish points to the submedian fold. [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 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).
