Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera: Order of insects that includes the butterfly and the moth. Lepidoptera have two pairs of membranous wings joined to each other and covered with scales, and mouth parts adapted for sucking. The order comprises more than 160,000 species.
Please see also the difference between a butterfly and a moth.
Placement
- Kingdom Animalia
- Phylum Arthropoda
- Class Hexapoda
- Order Lepidoptera
Synonyms and common names
Moths, butterflies.
References
Nearctica
as of 2002-06-26
ITIS 117232
as of 2002-08-12
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- Acanthopteroctetidae
- Acrolophidae
- Adelidae
- Agonoxenidae
- Agaristidae
- Alucitidae
- Apatelodidae
- Arctiidae
- Bedelliidae
- Blastobasidae
- Bombycidae
- Bucculatrigidae
- Carposinidae
- Choreutidae
- Coleophoridae
- Copromorphidae
- Cosmopterigidae
- Cossidae
- Ctenuchidae
- Cycnodiidae (?)
- Dalceridae
- Danaidae
- Dioptidae
- Doidae
- Douglasiidae
- Drepanidae
- Elachistidae
- Epermeniidae
- Epiplemidae
- Epipyropidae
- Eriocraniidae
- Ethmiidae
- Galacticidae
- Gelechiidae
- Geometridae
- Glyphipterigidae
- Gracillariidae
- Heliconiidae
- Heliodinidae
- Heliozelidae
- Hepialidae
- Hesperiidae
- Hyblaeidae
- Incurvariidae
- Lacturidae
- Lasiocampidae
- Lecithoceridae
- Libytheidae
- Limacodidae
- Liparidae
- Lycaenidae
- Lymantriidae
- Lyonetiidae
- Manidiidae
- Megalopygidae
- Megathymidae
- Micropterigidae
- Mimallonidae
- Momphidae
- Nepticulidae
- Noctuidae
- Nolidae
- Notodontidae
- Nymphalidae
- Oecophoridae
- Oinophilidae
- Olethreutidae
- Opostegidae
- Papilionidae
- Parnassiidae
- Pericopidae
- Phaloniidae
- Pieridae
- Plutellidae
- Prodoxidae
- Psychidae
- Pterophoridae
- Pyralidae
- Pyromorphidae
- Riodinidae
- Saturniidae
- Satyridae
- Schreckensteiniidae
- Scythrididae
- Sematuridae
- Sesiidae
- Sphingidae
- Stenomidae
- Symmocidae
- Thyatiridae
- Thyrididae
- Tineidae
- Tischeriidae
- Tortricidae
- Uraniidae
- Urodidae
- Walshiidae
- Yponomeutidae
- Ypsolophidae
- Zygaenidae