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Lepidoptera (/ ˌ l ɛ p ɪ ˈ d ɒ p t ər ə / LEP-ih-DOP-tər-ə) or lepidopterans is an order of winged insects which includes butterflies and moths.About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera have been described, representing 10% of the total described species of living organisms, [1] [2] making it the second largest insect order (behind Coleoptera) with 126 families [3] and 46 superfamilies ...
Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, ... it had no natural enemies. In order to control it, ...
The insect order Lepidoptera consists of moths and butterflies (43 superfamilies). [1] Most moths are night-flying, while the butterflies (superfamily Papilionoidea ) are the mainly day-flying. Within Lepidoptera as a whole, the groups listed below before Glossata contain a few basal families accounting for less than 200 species; the bulk of ...
While the butterflies form a monophyletic group, the moths, which comprise the rest of the Lepidoptera, do not. Many attempts have been made to group the superfamilies of the Lepidoptera into natural groups, most of which fail because one of the two groups is not monophyletic: Microlepidoptera and Macrolepidoptera, Heterocera and Rhopalocera, Jugatae and Frenatae, Monotrysia and Ditrysia.
The external morphology of Lepidoptera is the physiological structure of the bodies of insects belonging to the order Lepidoptera, also known as butterflies and moths. Lepidoptera are distinguished from other orders by the presence of scales on the external parts of the body and appendages, especially the wings.
Order Megaloptera – 250–300 (Alderflies, dobsonflies, and fishflies) Order Neuroptera – 5,000 (Net-winged insects) Order †Protomecoptera; Order †Tarachoptera; Order †Permotrichoptera; Order Lepidoptera – 174,250 (Butterflies and moths) Order Trichoptera – 12,627 (Caddisfly) Order †Paratrichoptera; Order †Protodiptera ...
The moths (mostly nocturnal) and butterflies (mostly diurnal) together make up the taxonomic order Lepidoptera. This list is sorted by MONA number (sometimes called a Hodges number), a numbering system for North American moths introduced by Ronald W. Hodges , et al. in 1983 in the publication Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of ...
Butterflies and moths were brought together under the name Lepidoptera. Linnaeus divided the group into three genera – Papilio , Sphinx and Phalaena . The first two, together with the seven subdivisions of the third, are now used as the basis for nine superfamily names: Papilionoidea , Sphingoidea , Bombycoidea , Noctuoidea , Geometroidea ...