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Media in category "Images of butterflies and moths". This category contains only the following file. Plate II Kallima butterfly from Animal Coloration by Frank Evers Beddard 1892.jpg 1,695 × 2,722; 1.77 MB.
P. argus cretaceus – formerly on chalk and limestone downland of south and south-east coasts, now restricted to Portland Bill. P. argus caernensis – Great Ormes Head (north Wales) P. argus masseyi – extinct (formerly north-west England) Brown argus – Aricia agestis LC. – throughout southern England, north to River Tees, south and ...
Lepidoptera (/ ˌ l ɛ p ɪ ˈ d ɒ p t ər ə / LEP-ih-DOP-tər-ə) or lepidopterans is an order of winged insects that includes butterflies and moths.About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera have been described, representing 10% of the total described species of living organisms, making it the second largest insect order (behind Coleoptera) with 126 families and 46 superfamilies, and one of ...
Taxonomy. While the butterflies form a monophyletic group, the moths, which comprise the rest of the Lepidoptera, do not. Many attempts have been made to group the superfamilies of the Lepidoptera into natural groups, most of which fail because one of the two groups is not monophyletic: Microlepidoptera and Macrolepidoptera, Heterocera and Rhopalocera, Jugatae and Frenatae, Monotrysia and ...
Species: A. celtis. Binomial name. Asterocampa celtis. ( Boisduval & Leconte, 1835) Asterocampa celtis, the hackberry emperor, is a North American butterfly that belongs to the brushfooted butterfly family, Nymphalidae. [2] It gets its name from the hackberry tree ( Celtis occidentalis and others in the genus Celtis) upon which it lays its eggs.
Over 140 species of butterfly that are found in the south-eastern Australian state of Victoria. This list includes native and introduced species and subspecies. This list includes native and introduced species and subspecies.
Printable version From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This is a list of butterflies and moths—species of the order Lepidoptera —that have been observed in the U.S. state of Michigan .
Tasmania is located south of the mainland of Australia, separated from the state of Victoria by the 240 km wide Bass Strait.Although Tasmania shares most of its fauna with the southern parts of Australia or Australia as a whole, Tasmania's isolation along with its wetter, cooler and cloudier weather caused the evolution of several endemic Tasmanian species and subspecies, butterflies included.