Lepidoptera Definition

pronoun

A taxonomic order within the superorder Panorpida — the butterflies, moths and skippers.

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Origin of Lepidoptera

  • From Ancient Greek λεπίς (lepís, “scale”) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing”).

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Lepidoptera Sentence Examples

  • Lepidoptera are very brilliant in colouring.

  • A number of larvae of Lepidoptera feed on the leaves - the remedy is to capture the mature insects when possible.

  • Schwangart, who has studied (1904) the embryonic insects, twenty-one of these divisions - not, however, all similar - development of Lepidoptera.

  • His classification was founded mainly on the nature of the wings, and five of his orders - the Hymenoptera (bees, ants, wasps, &c.), Coleoptera (beetles), Diptera (two-winged flies), Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies), and Hemiptera (bugs, cicads, &c.) - are recognized to-day with nearly the same limits as he laid down.

  • See Lepidoptera.

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