{"id":170928,"date":"2018-04-24T21:27:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T00:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notinor.com\/jujuy\/?p=170928"},"modified":"2018-04-24T21:27:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T00:27:07","slug":"descubren-en-china-el-mosquito-mas-grande-del-mundo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notinor.com\/jujuy\/descubren-en-china-el-mosquito-mas-grande-del-mundo\/","title":{"rendered":"Descubren en China el mosquito m\u00e1s grande del mundo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tn8.tv\/media\/cache\/a3\/9e\/a39e10d594dc7922ae098edc011109d9.jpg\" alt=\"china, mosquito, grande,enorme, mundo, insecto,\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Seg\u00fan explic\u00f3 a este medio el director del Museo de Insectos de China Occidental, Zhao Li, el\u00a0insecto\u00a0fue encontrado el pasado verano durante una expedici\u00f3n al monte\u00a0Qingcheng, un tur\u00edstico paraje situado en esa misma provincia.<\/p>\n<p>El\u00a0mosquito\u00a0pertenece a la especie\u00a0\"holorusia mikado\",\u00a0descubierta en 1876 por el\u00a0entom\u00f3logo brit\u00e1nico John Obadiah Westwood\u00a0durante\u00a0investigaciones\u00a0en\u00a0Jap\u00f3n, aunque normalmente sus\u00a0ejemplares\u00a0no sobrepasan los ocho cent\u00edmetros de longitud entre los\u00a0extremos\u00a0de sus\u00a0alas.<\/p>\n<p>Aunque se les denomina \"mosquitos gigantes\", cient\u00edficamente conforman una\u00a0especie\u00a0diferente a la de los\u00a0mosquitos\u00a0m\u00e1s conocidos, de los que se diferencian, entre otras cosas, en sus\u00a0h\u00e1bitos\u00a0alimentarios.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Insect Museum of West China announced on Apr. 23 that it had discovered the largest individual mosquito in the world so far.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how big it is: The mosquito is nearly 5 cm (approx. 2&quot;) in length and reaches 11.15 cm (approx. 4&quot;) in width when it spreads its wings. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eluimiQLKd\">pic.twitter.com\/eluimiQLKd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; China News \u4e2d\u56fd\u65b0\u95fb\u7f51 (@Echinanews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Echinanews\/status\/988695355389865985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The world&#39;s largest mosquito, found by the Insect Museum Of West China, Chengdu, Sichuan province, is about 5cm long and its wings could stretch out to 11.15cm. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZbLsJFY1W5\">pic.twitter.com\/ZbLsJFY1W5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; China Plus News (@ChinaPlusNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChinaPlusNews\/status\/988669468757798912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\"Tienen un aspecto horrendo, pero no se alimentan de\u00a0<strong>sangre<\/strong>. Los adultos suelen vivir unos pocos d\u00edas y en general comen n\u00e9ctar\", explic\u00f3 Zhao, quien tambi\u00e9n aclar\u00f3 que s\u00f3lo unos cientos de las decenas de miles de\u00a0<strong>insectos\u00a0<\/strong>que hay en el planeta tienen\u00a0<strong>h\u00e1bitos vamp\u00edricos.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>En el centro de\u00a0<strong>China\u00a0<\/strong>este insecto, conocido como \"<strong>mosca grulla<\/strong>\", suele habitar \u00e1reas\u00a0<strong>monta\u00f1osas\u00a0<\/strong>por encima de los 1.200 metros, aunque tambi\u00e9n puede ser encontrado en las\u00a0<strong>llanuras\u00a0<\/strong>de la provincia de Sichuan.<\/p>\n<p>La misma zona es tambi\u00e9n el h\u00e1bitat del\u00a0<strong>insecto\u00a0<\/strong>m\u00e1s largo del mundo, un\u00a0<strong>insecto\u00a0<\/strong>palo de 62,4 cent\u00edmetros de longitud que se hall\u00f3 en 2014 y tambi\u00e9n puede ser admirado en el Museo de Insectos de\u00a0<strong>China Occidental.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ese insecto fue encontrado por el propio\u00a0<strong>Zhao<\/strong>, con m\u00e1s de 20 a\u00f1os de experiencia en la b\u00fasqueda de\u00a0<strong>especies\u00a0<\/strong>de gran tama\u00f1o en el oeste de\u00a0<strong>China<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tn8.tv\/media\/uploads\/2018\/04\/24\/m4.jpg\" alt=\"china, mosquito, grande,enorme, mundo, insecto, \" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tn8.tv\/media\/uploads\/2018\/04\/24\/m3.jpg\" alt=\"china, mosquito, grande,enorme, mundo, insecto, \" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tn8.tv\/media\/uploads\/2018\/04\/24\/m2.jpg\" alt=\"china, mosquito, grande,enorme, mundo, insecto, \" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tn8.tv\/media\/uploads\/2018\/04\/24\/m1.jpg\" alt=\"china, mosquito, grande,enorme, mundo, insecto, \" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Seg\u00fan explic\u00f3 a este medio el director del Museo de Insectos de China Occidental, Zhao Li, el\u00a0insecto\u00a0fue encontrado el pasado verano durante una expedici\u00f3n al monte\u00a0Qingcheng, un tur\u00edstico paraje situado en esa misma provincia. El\u00a0mosquito\u00a0pertenece a la especie\u00a0\"holorusia mikado\",\u00a0descubierta en 1876 por el\u00a0entom\u00f3logo brit\u00e1nico John Obadiah Westwood\u00a0durante\u00a0investigaciones\u00a0en\u00a0Jap\u00f3n, aunque normalmente sus\u00a0ejemplares\u00a0no sobrepasan los ocho cent\u00edmetros [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":170931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/notinor.com\/jujuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/1-234.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notinor.com\/jujuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notinor.com\/jujuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notinor.com\/jujuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notinor.com\/jujuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notinor.com\/jujuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/notinor.com\/jujuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170932,"href":"https:\/\/notinor.com\/jujuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170928\/revisions\/170932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notinor.com\/jujuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notinor.com\/jujuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notinor.com\/jujuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notinor.com\/jujuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}