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There are many families of butterfly. See the scientific classification below:
Kingdom:
- Animalia
Phylum:
- Arthropoda
Class:
- Insecta
Order:
- Lepidoptera
Superfamily:
- Hedyloidea
- Hedylidae
Superfamily:
- Hesperioidea
Family:
- Hesperiidae
- Papilionoidea
Family:
- Papilionidae
- Pieridae
- Nymphalidae
- Lycaenidae
- Riodinidae
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 8y agoButterflies and moths belong to the order Lepidoptera (from the Greek lepis meaning scale and pteron meaning wing). The most obvious difference is in the feelers, or antennae. Most butterflies have thin slender filamentous antennae which are club-shaped at the end. Moths, on the other hand, often have comb-like or feathery antennae, or filamentous and unclubbed. 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)
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∙ 11y agoThere are many families of butterflies, containing thousands of species. "Butterfly" refers to the superfamily Papilionoidea, in the order Lepidoptera.
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∙ 11y agoThere are many families of butterflies, containing thousands of species. "Butterfly" refers to the superfamily Papilionoidea, in the order Lepidoptera.
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∙ 12y agoNo I THINK
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