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The female can reach, and slightly exceed, a wingspan of 25 to 28 cm (10 to 11 in), a body length of 8 cm (3.1 in) and a body mass of up to 12 g (0.42 oz), all enormous measurements for a butterfly. The female has brown wings with white markings arranged as two rows of chevrons.
Ornithoptera goliath has a wingspan up to 28 centimetres (11 in). This makes it the world's second largest butterfly. This makes it the world's second largest butterfly. The African giant swallowtail reaches an almost equal wingspan.
They are known as the biggest butterflies in the world, reaching an impressive wingspan of 27 centimeters. The largest ever recorded had a wingspan of 27.3 centimeters, and is kept in the Natural ...
Birdwings are typified by large size (up to a maximum body length of 7.6 cm or 3 inches and a wingspan of 28 cm or 11 inches in O. alexandrae), showy colouration (in contrasting shades of green, yellow, black, white, and sometimes blue or orange), and slender, lanceolate forewings.
The wingspan can be up to 15 cm (5.9 in) in females, and 12.5 cm (4.9 in) in males. [2] A closely allied species, the New Guinea or Priam's birdwing (Ornithoptera priamus) reaches 19 cm (7.5 in) and is the largest butterfly species found in Australia, but it is not endemic.
The scales on butterfly wings are pigmented with melanins that can produce the colours black and brown. The white colour in the butterfly family Pieridae is a derivative of uric acid, an excretory product. [13] [40]: 84 Bright blues, greens, reds, and iridescence are usually created not by pigments but through the microstructure of the scales.
The largest of the bees is Megachile pluto, the females of which can be 3.8 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long, with a 6.3-cm (2.5-in) wingspan. The largest wingspan of any wasp (and of any hymenopteran) probably belongs to the so-called tarantula hawk species Pepsis heros, measuring up to 12.2 cm (4.8 in) in wingspan, although many other Pepsis species ...
Papilio antimachus, the African giant swallowtail, is a butterfly in the family Papilionidae. With a wingspan between 18 and 23 centimetres (7.1 and 9.1 in), it is the largest butterfly in Africa and among the largest butterflies in the world. The shape of the wings differ between the males and females.