Hitruspolia Galia (Floria)

***Not to be confused with Hitruscuna Galia or Hidandëpol Galia.***

Floria named Almelia during her yearly photo shoot.

***Florias*** (Hitruspolia Galia), are creatures that live on the planet of ATS-4F, also known as Hitra and are small yellowish-white glowing orbs, that are usually about 2 centimeters to 3 inches in size. Babies start out as eggs laid by adult female Florias, and look just like mature ones but a lot smaller and no wings. They usually take about a month to hatch, (which on Hitra, is about 33 days). Once they hatch, the outside protection shell of the egg is eaten by the baby floria. Then, the Florias slowly grow into mature Florias, (a Floria lifespan is about 155 years, they age really slowly.) and grow their wings. Typically, at the age of 3 the Florias get their wings. As they age, their body color turns darker. Florias also sometimes twitch, and in higher wind speeds they use it to keep their balance. This is how they measure cyclones in the Floxia basin.

### Gender differences

The differences between male and female, is that males usually have a black mark on their wings, which is always different. Kinda like how no 2 snowflakes are the same, and the other difference is Females can only lay eggs. Females usually lay eggs 19 times in their life, usually every 7 - 9 years. They reproduce like insects do.

### Diet

Florias usually consume mostly plants and fruits, one of their favorites is mint leaves. Mint was actually brought to Hitra when the humans arrived in 2018 and when the humans held out a piece of mint next to a Floria they came and started taking bites out of it. Florias also seem to like strawberries and raspberries, and a Floria said that they will eat meat if they absolutely have too. There is a special plant native to Hitra, called Mami which tastes kind of like maraschino cherries. Florias eating routine, usually consists of a breakfast, a small snack at noon and dinner. Mami is found pretty much everywhere on Hitra.

## Ancestors

### Acednuaen "Floria Galia" 11.4 MYA - 1.5 MYA

The first ever florias had legs and couldn't fly, and had little resemblance of modern day florias and the females laid eggs differently. We don't have a image available for these.

### Galianuaen "Floria" 1.5 MYA - 13000 BC

These are less distant relatives of Floria. They have more similarities

### Archeofloria (Hitarna Galia) 13000 BC to 1 CE.

Archeofloria were very similar to modern Floria, but had longer wings and were lighter in color.

### Floria (Hitruspolia Galia) 1 CE - present

Modern Day florias live between 1 CE and today. We have many pictures available for these, you can find some here. Florias (Hitruspolia Galia) are small yellowish-white glowing orbs, that are usually about 2 centimeters to 3 inches in size. Babies start out as eggs laid by adult female Florias, and look just like mature ones but a lot smaller and no wings. They usually take about a month to hatch, (which on Hitra, is about 33 days). Once they hatch, the outside protection shell of the egg is eaten by the baby floria. Then, the Florias slowly grow into mature Florias, (a Floria lifespan is about 155 years, they age really slowly.) and grow their wings. Typically, at the age of 3 the Florias get their wings. As they age, their body color turns darker. Florias also sometimes twitch, and in higher wind speeds they use it to keep their balance. This is how they measure cyclones in the Floxia basin.

The differences between male and female, is that males usually have a black mark on their wings, which is always different. Kinda like how no 2 snowflakes are the same, and the other difference is Females can only lay eggs. Females usually lay eggs 19 times in their life, usually every 7 - 9 years. They reproduce like insects do.

## Animals within the same genus

(I'm not too good with all of this animal stuff, so if genus isn't the word you may change it.)

### Extinct

Ae fly (Hitruscuna Galia)

Dandë fly

Hitra megaladragonfly