Latitudo alarum
Latitudo alarum est spatium inter partes extremas alarum sinistrae et dextrae avis, insecti, aëroplani, vel aliae rei alas habentis.
Latitudines alarum superlativae[recensere | fontem recensere]
Latitudo maxima[recensere | fontem recensere]
- Aëroplanum: Hughes H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose" – 97.51 m[1]
- Vespertilio: Pteropus "Flying fox" or "fruit bat" – 2 m[2]
- Avis: Diomedea exulans – 3.63 m[3]
- Avis (exstincta): Argentavis – Estimated 7 m[4]
- Reptile (exstinctum): Quetzalcoatlus pterosaur – 10–11 m[5]
- Insectum: Thysania agrippina – 28 cm[6]
- Insectum (exstinctum): Meganeuropsis (relative of dragonflies) – estimated up to 71 cm[7]
Latitudo minima[recensere | fontem recensere]
- Aëroplanum: Starr Bumble Bee II – 1.68 m[8]
- Vespertilio: Craseonycteris thonglongyai – 16 cm [2]
- Avis: Mellisuga helenae – 6.5 cm[9]
- Insectum: Caraphractus cinctus – 0.2 mm[10]
Notae[recensere | fontem recensere]
- ↑ "Spruce Goose". Evergreen Aviation Museum
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Bats". Sea World
- ↑ Wood, Gerald (1983). The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats.
- ↑ Chatterjee, Sankar; Templin, R. Jack; Campbell, Kenneth E.Jr. (2007). The aerodynamics of Argentavis, the world’s largest flying bird from the Miocene of Argentina. 104. pp. 12398–12403
- ↑ Connor, Steve (September 10, 2005). "Flying dinosaur biggest airborne animal". New Zealand Herald
- ↑ "Largest Lepidopteran Wing Span". University of Florida Book of Insect Records
- ↑ Mitchell, F.L. and Lasswell, J. (2005): A dazzle of dragonflies Texas A&M University Press, page 47
- ↑ "STARR BUMBLE BEE"
- ↑ Adrienne Glick. "Mellisuga helenae bee hummingbird". Univertiy of Michigan
- ↑ "Smallest Insect Filmed in Flight"
