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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. Thorax: The prothorax is usually reduced. Wings: Two pairs of wings are present in almost all taxa. The wings have very few cross veins.
The development of insect mouthparts from the primitive chewing mouthparts of a grasshopper in the centre (A), to the lapping type (B) of a bee, the siphoning type (C) of a butterfly and the sucking type (D) of a female mosquito. Legend: a, antennae; c, compound eye; lb, labium; lr, labrum; md, mandibles; mx, maxillae; hp hypopharynx.
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 ...
Papilio demoleus is a common and widespread swallowtail butterfly. The butterfly is also known as the lime butterfly, [1] [2] lemon butterfly, lime swallowtail, and chequered swallowtail. [2] These common names refer to their host plants, which are usually citrus species such as the cultivated lime. Unlike most swallowtail butterflies, it does ...
Nice try stealing the show, though, butterfly. At the. A butterfly landed on a flautist's nose in the middle of an international flute competition. But like a pro, Yukie Ota didn't flinch and kept ...
The Thompsons of Saint Paul wanted to teach their kids, Gunnar and Harley, about metamorphosis -- the changing of a caterpillar into a butterfly. Wesley, father to the fledgling botanists ...
Papilio ambrax ambrax (western Irian to Papua); Papilio ambrax dunali Montrouzier, 1856 (Woodlark Island); Papilio ambrax epirus Wallace, 1865 male above with red anal spot, beneath with more than 2 yellow-red spots; the apex of the forewing with faint grey stripes. female:the forewing between the 1. median and the 2. submedian with 2 white patches, of which at least the posterior one is much ...
The antennae always have two grooves on the underside; the club is variable in shape. Throughout the family, the front pair of legs in the male, and with three exceptions ( Libythea , Pseudergolis , and Calinaga ) in the female also, is reduced in size and functionally impotent; in some, the atrophy of the forelegs is considerable, e.g., the ...