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Butterflies are
winged insects from the
lepidopteran suborder Rhopalocera,
characterized by large,
often brightly coloured wings that
often fold together...
- but the
group is
paraphyletic with
respect to
butterflies (suborder
Rhopalocera) and
neither subordinate taxon is used in
modern classifications. Moths...
- λεπίδος lepídos ("scale") and πτερόν ("wing"). Sometimes, the term
Rhopalocera is used for the
clade of all
butterfly species,
derived from the Ancient...
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Butterflies are a
natural monophyletic group,
often given the
suborder Rhopalocera,
which includes Papilionoidea (true butterflies),
Hesperiidae (skippers)...
- they fall into
eight different families. The
butterflies form the
clade Rhopalocera,
which is
composed of
three superfamilies:
Hedyloidea (the moth butterfly...
- are only as
closely related to each
other as
either is to
butterflies (
Rhopalocera). Most
bagworms are
inoffensive to
humans and incon****uous; some are...
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Zoological Nomenclature". www.iczn.org.
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Photographs of type
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Retrieved 2022-01-14.
Henley Grose-Smith and
William Forsell Kirby,1887-1902
Rhopalocera exotica;
being illustrations of new, rare, and
unfigured species of butterflies...
- his
interest in
natural history, and
resulted in the
publication of
Rhopalocera Malayana (1882–1886), a
description of the
butterflies of the
Malay Peninsula...
- of the Nymphalidæ. The Nymphalidæ are a part of the
suborder of the
Rhopalocera, or true butterflies, one of the two
great subdivisions of the order...