Definition of Rhopaloceras. Meaning of Rhopaloceras. Synonyms of Rhopaloceras

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Definition of Rhopaloceras

Rhopalocera
Rhopalocera Rhop`a*loc"e*ra, n. pl. [NL., from Gr. ??? a club + ??? ahorn.] (Zo["o]l.) A division of Lepidoptera including all the butterflies. They differ from other Lepidoptera in having club-shaped antenn[ae].

Meaning of Rhopaloceras from wikipedia

- 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...
- Butterflies are a natural monophyletic group, often given the suborder Rhopalocera, which includes Papilionoidea (true butterflies), Hesperiidae (skippers)...
- Zoological Nomenclature". www.iczn.org. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Holotypes. BOA Photographs of type specimens of Neotropical Rhopalocera....
- they fall into eight different families. The butterflies form the clade Rhopalocera, which is composed of three superfamilies: Hedyloidea (the moth butterfly...
- 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...
- Vane-Wright, R. I., 1975. The butterflies named by J. F. Gmelin (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology, 32: 17–64...
- Pterocotes Quadraceps Rallicola Johnston & Harrison, 1911 Rallicola extinctus Rhopaloceras Rhynonirmus Rotundiceps Saemundssonia Saepocephalum Splendoroffula Strigiphilus...
- to the butterflies of Russia and adjacent territories (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera). Vol. 1. Sofia-Moscow: Pensoft-Press, 480 p., 79 col. plates. Warren...