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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 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 ...
180,000 species of Lepidoptera are described, equivalent to 10% of the total described species of living organisms. [1] This is a list of the diversity of the Lepidoptera showing the estimated number of genera and species described for each superfamily and, where available, family. See Lepidoptera for a note of the schedule of families used.
Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, [1] whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfly species.
Satyrinae (satyrs and browns, earlier treated as distinct family Satyridae) Host plants are in the families Arecaceae, Araceae , Cyperaceae , Heliconiaceae, Poaceae, and Selaginellaceae . The heliconiine clade ( sister group of the nymphaline clade, excludes former tribes Biblidini and Cyrestini , and tribes Pseudergolini and Coeini)
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 ...
The Tortricidae are a family of moths, commonly known as tortrix moths or leafroller moths, [1] in the order Lepidoptera. This large family has over 11,000 species described, and is the sole member of the superfamily Tortricoidea, although the genus Heliocosma is sometimes placed within this superfamily. [2] [3] Many of these are economically ...
Hedylidae, the "American moth-butterflies", is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera, formerly 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 ...