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  2. Lepidopterology - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland

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    The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland volume 1. The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland (abbreviated to MBGBI or MOGBI) is a multi-volume reference work on the Lepidoptera of the British Isles. The original publisher of this series was Curwen Books who published volumes 1 and 9.

  4. Richard South - Wikipedia

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    He is best known for writing three important books on butterflies and moths of the British Isles. [1] After his death, these were updated by H. M. Edelsten. [ 1 ] Michael Salmon has described these as "innovative" and "a new kind of [field] guide for the [twentieth] century", noting their early use of colour photographs and eschewing of ...

  5. The butterflies and moths of Teneriffe - Wikipedia

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    The butterflies and moths of Teneriffe is a non-fiction book written by A. E. Holt White, and edited by Rashleigh Holt White. [1] Released on December 19, 1893, it was published in London by L. Reeve and Co. with a publication date of 1894. [2] There are 108 pages, with four plates, [3] and 23 coloured figures from the author's drawings. [4]

  6. L. Hugh Newman - Wikipedia

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    Talking of butterflies, moths and other fascinating insects (1946) Butterfly haunts (1948) British moths and their haunts (1949) Butterflies on the wing (1949) Moths on the wing (1950) Stand & stare (1950) with W. J. C. Murray; Transformations of butterflies and moths (1952) Nature parliament: A book of the broadcasts (1952) with James Fisher ...

  7. William Jacob Holland - Wikipedia

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    Holland was America's great popularizer of butterflies and moths in the first half of the twentieth century. Holland's The Butterfly Book (1898) and The Moth Book (1903) are both still widely used. Holland donated his private collection exceeding 250,000 specimens to the Carnegie Museum.

  8. Taxonomy of the Lepidoptera - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Comparison of butterflies and moths - Wikipedia

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    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.

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