Latitudo alarum
Latitudo alarum est spatium inter partes extremas alarum sinistrae et dextrae avis, insecti, aëroplani, vel aliae rei alas habentis.
Index
1 Latitudines alarum superlativae
1.1 Latitudo maxima
1.2 Latitudo minima
2 Notae
Latitudines alarum superlativae |
Latitudo maxima |
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 |
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 |
↑ "Spruce Goose". Evergreen Aviation Museum
↑ 2.02.1 "Bats". Sea World
↑ Wood, Gerald (1983). The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats. ISBN 978-0-85112-235-9
↑ 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"