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Lepidoptera are among the most successful groups of insects. They are found on all continents, except Antarctica. Lepidoptera inhabit all terrestrial habitats ranging from desert to rainforest, from lowland grasslands to montane plateaus but almost always associated with higher plants, especially angiosperms (flowering plants). [1]
The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex) is a searchable database maintained by the Department of Entomology at the Natural History Museum, London. It is based on card indices and scanned journals, nomenclatural catalogues and the Zoological Record .
List of Lepidoptera of Cape Verde; List of butterflies of the Central African Republic; List of butterflies of Chad; List of Lepidoptera of the Chagos Archipelago; List of butterflies of China; List of butterflies of Christmas Island; List of butterflies of the Comoros; List of Lepidoptera of the Cook Islands; List of Lepidoptera of Croatia
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.
Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects is a series of books produced by the Royal Entomological Society (RES). The aim of the Handbooks is to provide illustrated identification keys to the insects of Britain, together with concise morphological, biological and distributional information.
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 ...
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The Global Lepidoptera is an updated version of the Lepidoptera Names Index (Lepindex), curated in TaxonWorks. Many groups still have inaccuracies and errors carried over from Lepindex,but some familiees and superfamilies have seen significant updates (see list in status box below).