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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 ...
The morphological characteristics which distinguish the order Lepidoptera from other insect orders are: [10]: 246 Head: The head has large compound eyes and, if mouthparts are present, they are almost always a drinking straw-like proboscis. Scales: Scales cover the external surface of the body and appendages.
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 ...
A Lepidoptera specimen drawer in a museum collection in Poland Another Lepidoptera specimen drawer in a museum collection in Poland. Lepidopterology (from Ancient Greek λεπίδος (lepídos) 'scale' πτερόν (pterón) 'wing' and -λογία [1]) is a branch of entomology concerning the scientific study of moths and the two superfamilies of butterflies.
Hedylidae, the "American moth-butterflies", is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera, representing the superfamily Hedyloidea.They have traditionally been viewed as an extant sister group of the butterfly superfamily Papilionoidea, but a 2014 phylogenetic analysis has suggested Hedylidae is a subgroup of Papilionoidea, and not a sister group, and are more accurately referred to as ...
Lepidoptera is the insect order of moths and butterflies.It is divided in four suborders: Aglossata, Glossata, Heterobathmiina and Zeugloptera. Of these, Glossata is by far most speciose and contains both butterflies (which are further restricted to the clade Rhopalocera) and moths; the other three suborders are far smaller and solely contain moths.
Eupterotidae is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera with more than 300 described ... (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea). Senckenbergiana Biologica 88 (1 ...
Incurvariidae is a family of small primitive monotrysian moths in the order Lepidoptera.There are twelve genera recognised (Davis, 1999). Many species are leaf miners [2] and much is known of their host plants, excluding Paraclemensia acerifoliella. [3]