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Mastotermes darwiniensis or Darwin termite, is an extant species of Australian insect showing archedictyon wing venation.. Archedictyon (from Greek Arche meaning first, original, ancient, primitive, or most basic [1] and dictyo-meaning net or netlike, [2] plural "archedictya") is a name given to a hypothetical scheme of wing venation proposed for the common ancestor of all winged insects.
The purple-crowned fairywren is a small, sexually dimorphic, bird measuring approximately 14 cm (5.5 in) in length, with a wing-span of approximately 16 cm (6.3 in) and weighing only 9–13 g (0.32–0.46 oz).
Ptillid wings are feathery due to the much higher effective viscosity of air at small body sizes, which makes normal insect wings much less efficient. Unlike other small insects with feathery wings, such as parasitic wasps like fairyflies , ptillids do not fly using a clap and fling motion, but instead fly using a figure of eight pattern where ...
Their wings are usually slender and possess long bristles, giving them a hairy or feathery appearance, although some species may have greatly reduced stubby wings or lack wings altogether. These unusual-looking wings work by utilizing air resistance —which at their minuscule size is equivalent to moving through honey—so they sort of ...
There are three recognised subspecies.Both black-plumaged forms have been called the black-and-white fairywren and black-and-white wren.. M. l. leucopterus - Dumont, 1824 Range of the nominate subspecies is restricted to Dirk Hartog Island, off the western coast of Australia, and nuptial males display black-and-white plumage. [17]
Cirrhilabrus finifenmaa, also known by its common name rose-veiled fairy wrasse, is a rainbow-colored wrasse that is native to the reefs of the Maldives. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Discovery and etymology
A major rockslide prompted two highways to be shut down in Colorado over the weekend and witnesses captured the frightening moment on video. Highways 96 and 165 from Wetmore to Westcliffe in ...
The boldly striped black and white wing pattern is aposematic, warning off predators. It is the state butterfly of Florida . The species is distributed across South and Central America and as far north as southern Texas and peninsular Florida; there are migrations north into other American states in the warmer months.