1) Animal order 2) Moths and butterflies 3) Order lepidoptera
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1) Clan of the moth
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Lepidopteran species are characterized by more than three derived features, some of the most apparent being the scales covering their bodies and wings, and a proboscis. The scales are modified, flattened `hairs`, and give butterflies and moths their extraordinary variety of colors and patterns. Almost all species have some form of membranous win.....
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a large order of scaly-winged insects including the butterflies, skippers, and moths, often brightly colored and having a coiled sucking proboscis (Morris 1992).
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• (n. pl.) An order of insects, which includes the butterflies and moths. They have broad wings, covered with minute overlapping scales, usually brightly colored.
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<zoology> An order of insects, which includes the butterflies and moths. They have broad wings, covered with minute overlapping scales, usually brightly coloured. ... They have a tubular proboscis, or haustellum, formed by the two slender maxillae. The labial palpi are usually large, and the proboscis, when not in use, can be coiled up spiral...
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Order of insects that comprises butterflies and moths
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Lep`i·dop'te·ra (-dŏp'te*rȧ)
noun plural [ New Latin , from Greek
lepi`s - i`dos , a scale +
ptero`n a feather, wing.]
(Zoology) An order of insects, which includes the butterflies and moths. They have broad wings, covered with minute overla...
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Type: Term Pronunciation: lep′i-dop′tĕr-ă Definitions: 1. An order of insects composed of the moths and butterflies, characterized by wings covered with delicate scales.
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Lepidoptera is an order of insects which includes the butterflies and moths, and is marked by the following characteristics: - There are four pairs of wings and both they and the body are covered with scales, frequently brightly coloured, which on the body may resemble hairs in appearance. The imago, or perfect insect, is devoid of biting jaws, and...
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n] - moths and butterflies
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Lepidoptera 1. An order of insects, which includes the butterflies and moths. They have broad wings, covered with minute overlapping scales, usually brightly colored. 2. An order of the class Insecta that includes the butterflies, moths, and skippers; characterized by scaly wings, sucking mouth parts, and complete metamorphosis.
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insects with four scaly wings
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butterflies and Moths/Order Lepidoptera are probably the most widely studied order of invertebrates. The Order comprises some 160,000 species.
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order Lepidoptera noun moths and butterflies
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the order of insects that includes butterflies and moths
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insect order that includes butterflies and moths; insects in this order have microscopic scales on each wing
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