Editing Wingspan (section)

==Wingspan records==
===Largest wingspan===
*'''Aircraft''': [[Scaled Composites Stratolaunch]] — {{convert|117|m|ft|abbr=off}} <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/05/paul-allen-showed-off-his-new-rocket-launching-plane-today-it-is-big/|title=Paul Allen showed off his new rocket-launching plane today, and it's BIG|work=[[Ars Technica]]|access-date=June 1, 2017|language=en-us}}</ref>
*'''Bat''': [[Large flying fox]] – {{convert|1.5|m|ftin|abbr=on}}<ref name="Bats">{{cite web|url=http://www.seaworld.org/animal-info/Animal-Bytes/animalia/eumetazoa/coelomates/deuterostomes/chordata/craniata/mammalia/chiroptera/bats.htm|title=Bats|publisher=Sea World|access-date=June 23, 2007|archive-date=November 19, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051119153537/http://www.seaworld.org/animal-info/Animal-Bytes/animalia/eumetazoa/coelomates/deuterostomes/chordata/craniata/mammalia/chiroptera/bats.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*'''Bird'''
**'''Extant''': [[Wandering albatross]] – {{convert|3.63|m|ftin|abbr=on}}<ref name = "Wood">{{cite book | author = Wood, Gerald | url = https://archive.org/details/guinnessbookofan00wood | title = The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats | year = 1983 | publisher = Guinness Superlatives | isbn = 978-0-85112-235-9 | url-access = registration }}</ref>
**'''Extinct''': ''[[Argentavis]]'' – Estimated {{convert|7|m|ftin|abbr=on}}<ref>{{cite journal|last1= Chatterjee|first1= Sankar|last2= Templin|first2= R. Jack|last3= Campbell|first3= Kenneth E.Jr.|title= The aerodynamics of Argentavis, the world's largest flying bird from the Miocene of Argentina|journal= Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|year = 2007|volume= 104|issue= 30|pages= 12398–12403|doi=10.1073/pnas.0702040104|pmid= 17609382|pmc= 1906724|doi-access= free}}</ref>
*'''Insect'''
**'''Extant''': [[Thysania agrippina|White witch moth]] – {{convert|28|cm|1|abbr=on}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ufbir.ifas.ufl.edu/chap32.htm |title=Largest Lepidopteran Wing Span |publisher=University of Florida Book of Insect Records |access-date=June 23, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080302212157/http://ufbir.ifas.ufl.edu/chap32.htm |archive-date=March 2, 2008  }}</ref>
**'''Extinct''': ''[[Meganeuropsis]]'' ([[Griffinfly]], relative of dragonflies) – estimated up to {{convert|71|cm|1|abbr=on}}<ref>Mitchell, F.L. and Lasswell, J. (2005): A dazzle of dragonflies Texas A&M University Press, page 47</ref>
*'''Reptile''': ''[[Hatzegopteryx]]'' ([[Azhdarchid]] pterosaur) – {{convert|10|-|12|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}<ref name=witton2010>{{cite journal |last1= Witton |first1= Mark P. |last2= Martill |first2= David M. |last3= Loveridge |first3= Robert F. |year= 2010 |title= Clipping the Wings of Giant Pterosaurs: Comments on Wingspan Estimations and Diversity |journal= Acta Geoscientica Sinica |volume= 31 |issue= Supp 1 |pages= 79–81}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | first2 = M.P. | last2 = Witton | first1 = D. | last1 = Naish | title = Neck biomechanics indicate that giant Transylvanian azhdarchid pterosaurs were short-necked arch predators | volume = 5 | pages = e2908 | doi = 10.7717/peerj.2908 | pmid = 28133577 | pmc = 5248582 | journal = PeerJ | date = 2017 | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref name="G.S.Paul2022">{{Cite book|last=Paul|first=Gregory S.|title=The Princeton Field Guide to Pterosaurs|year=2022|publisher=Princeton University Press|pages=155–172|doi=10.1515/9780691232218|isbn=9780691232218|s2cid=249332375 }}</ref>

=== Smallest wingspan ===
*'''Aircraft'''
**'''Biplane''': [[Starr Bumble Bee II]] – {{convert|1.68|m|ftin|abbr=on}}<ref name="Pima">{{cite web|website= Pima Air & Space Museum|title= Starr bumble bee|url= http://www.pimaair.org/collection-detail.php?cid=254|access-date= December 8, 2013|archive-date= November 11, 2007|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071111153623/http://www.pimaair.org/collection-detail.php?cid=254|url-status= dead}}</ref>
**'''Jet''': [[Bede BD-5]] – {{convert|4.27|m|ftin|abbr=on}}{{citation needed|date=February 2009}}
**'''Twin engine''': [[Colomban Cri-cri]] – {{convert|4.9|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
*'''Bat''': [[Bumblebee bat]] – {{convert|16|cm|in|abbr=on}}<ref name="Bats" />
*'''Bird''': [[Bee hummingbird]] – {{convert|6.5|cm|in|abbr=on}}<ref>{{cite web|website= Animal Diversity Web|publisher= University of Michigan|title= ''Mellisuga helenae'' bee hummingbird|author= Adrienne Glick|access-date= November 29, 2013|url= http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Mellisuga_helenae/}}</ref>
*'''Insect''': Tanzanian parasitic wasp ([[Fairyfly]]) – {{convert|0.2|mm|abbr=on}}<ref>{{cite web|website= ScienceDaily|title= Smallest Insect Filmed in Flight|url= https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110525105832.htm|access-date= November 29, 2013}}</ref>
*'''Reptile''': ''[[Nemicolopterus]]'' ([[Tapejaromorph]] pterosaur) – {{convert|25|cm|in|0|abbr=on}}<ref name=wangetal2008>{{cite journal |last1= Wang |first1= X. |last2= Kellner |first2= A.W.A. |last3= Zhou |first3= Z. |last4= Campos |first4= D.A. |year= 2008 |title= Discovery of a rare arboreal forest-dwelling flying reptile (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from China |journal= Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |volume= 105|issue= 6 |pages= 1983–1987 |doi= 10.1073/pnas.0707728105 |pmid=18268340 |pmc=2538868|bibcode= 2008PNAS..105.1983W|doi-access= free }}</ref>