Latitudo alarum est spatium inter partes extremas alarum sinistrae dextraeque avis, insecti, aëroplani, aliusve rei alas habentis.

Latitudines alarum superlativae

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]

Notae

↑ "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 .