Latitudo alarum
Latitudo alarum est spatium inter partes extremas alarum sinistrae dextraeque avis, insecti, aëroplani, aliusve 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―2 m[2]
- Avis Diomedea exulans―3.63 m[3]
- Avis (exstincta) Argentavis―existimatur 7 m[4]
- Reptile (exstinctum) Quetzalcoatlus pterosaurium―10–11 m[5]
- Insectum Thysania agrippina―28 cm[6]
- Insectum (exstinctum) Meganeuropsis, proximum genere libellulis―existimatur infra 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. 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 (10 Septembris 2005). "Flying dinosaur biggest airborne animal". New Zealand Herald.
- ↑ "Largest Lepidopteran Wing Span". University of Florida Book of Insect Records.
- ↑ F. L. Mitchell et J. Lasswell, A dazzle of dragonflies (Texas A&M University Press, 2005), 47.
- ↑ STARR BUMBLE BEE. . Pima Air & Space Museum
- ↑ Adrienne Glick. Mellisuga helenae bee hummingbird. . Animal Diversity Web (Univertiy of Michigan).
- ↑ Smallest Insect Filmed in Flight. . ScienceDaily.