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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. Lepidoptera - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Nymphalidae - Wikipedia

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    Danainae (milkweed butterflies, earlier treated as the distinct family Danaidae) Host plant families include Apocynaceae, Asclepiadoideae (subfamily of Apocynaceae), and Moraceae. Ithomiini (about 300 Neotropical species, sometimes considered a subfamily Ithomiinae) Most species have long wings, and some have transparent wings.

  5. 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.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Monarch butterfly - Wikipedia

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    Danainae was formerly considered a separately family Danaidae. [20] The three species of monarch butterflies are: D. plexippus, described by Linnaeus in 1758, is the species known most commonly as the monarch butterfly of North America. Its range extends worldwide, including Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, and the Pacific Islands.

  8. 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.

  9. Lepidoptera migration - Wikipedia

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    Butterflies are considered a keystone species; their residence in a habitat is a key indicator of the health of the ecosystem. [39] Butterflies serve a multitude of purposes within an ecosystem including promoting genetic diversity [40] through pollination and serving as a food source for many birds.