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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 ...
[2] [3] This distinction is the basis for the earliest taxonomic divisions in the Lepidoptera: the Rhopalocera ("clubbed horn", the butterflies) and the Heterocera ("varied horn", the moths). There are, however, exceptions to this rule and a few moths (the families Castniidae , Uraniidae , Apoprogonidae , Sematuridae , [ 4 ] and some members of ...
The butterflies form the clade Rhopalocera, which is composed of three superfamilies: Hedyloidea (the moth butterfly family Hedylidae), the Hesperioidea (the skipper family Hesperiidae), and the Papilionoidea (the true butterfly families Papilionidae, Pieridae, Nymphalidae, Lycaenidae, and Riodinidae). All of these families are monophyletic.
The Macrolepidoptera of the World. 9. The Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. 2 vols. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen Verlag viii+1197 pp. Fruhstorfer, H., 1911. The Indo-Australian Rhopalocera. [Amathusiidae]. pp. 403–448 in Seitz, A. (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the World: A Systematic Description of the Hitherto Known Macrolepidoptera. Stuttgart ...
Japonica lutea is a small butterfly found in the East Palearctic that belongs to the lycaenids ... Japonica lutea in Rhopalocera nihonica. Subspecies. Japonica lutea ...
The green-veined white (Pieris napi) is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. Appearance and distribution A ... P.Y., 1995 The Butterflies (Rhopalocera) ...
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 ...
Rhopalocera (butterfly) Hedyloidea; Papilionoidea; Ditrysia is a clade of lepidopterans that contains both butterflies and a majority of moth species.