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  2. Butterfly - Wikipedia

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    Possibly the original butter-fly. [6] A male brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni) in flight.The Oxford English Dictionary derives the word straightforwardly from Old English butorflēoge, butter-fly; similar names in Old Dutch and Old High German show that the name is ancient, but modern Dutch and German use different words (vlinder and Schmetterling) and the common name often varies substantially ...

  3. Swallowtail butterfly - Wikipedia

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    The forked appearance in some of the swallowtails' hindwings, which can be seen when the butterfly is resting with its wings spread, gave rise to the common name swallowtail. As for its formal name, Linnaeus chose Papilio for the type genus , as papilio is Latin for "butterfly".

  4. Faboideae - Wikipedia

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    An acceptable alternative name for the subfamily is Papilionoideae, or Papilionaceae when this group of plants is treated as a family. [4] This subfamily is widely distributed, and members are adapted to a wide variety of environments. Faboideae may be trees, shrubs, or herbaceous plants.

  5. Skipper (butterfly) - Wikipedia

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    The third and rather small butterfly superfamily is the moth-butterflies (Hedyloidea), which are restricted to the Neotropics, but recent phylogenetic analyses suggest the traditional Papilionoidea are paraphyletic, thus the subfamilies should be reorganized to reflect true cladistic relationships. [3] [4] Grass Skipper Butterfly atalopedes ...

  6. List of butterflies of India (Papilionidae) - Wikipedia

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    The Kaiser-i-Hind is a rare species of swallowtail butterfly found from Nepal and north India eastwards to north Vietnam. The common name literally means "Emperor of India", and it is much sought after by butterfly collectors for its beauty and rarity. Kaiser-e-Hind, Teinopalpus imperialis Hope, 1843

  7. Taxonomy of the Lepidoptera - Wikipedia

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    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 Lepidoptera are in the Glossata. [ 1 ]

  8. Papilio machaon - Wikipedia

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    Papilio machaon, the Old World swallowtail, is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae.The butterfly is also known as the common yellow swallowtail or simply the swallowtail (a common name applied to all members of the family, but this species was the first to be given the name).

  9. List of butterflies of Europe (Papilionidae) - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the butterflies of family Papilionidae, or the "swallowtails", which are found in Europe.This family of large and beautiful butterflies is poorly represented with only 14 species found within European borders, [1] out of a total of 552 species of swallowtails found throughout the world. [2]