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Lepidoptera are among the most successful groups of insects. They are found on all continents, except Antarctica. Lepidoptera inhabit all terrestrial habitats ranging from desert to rainforest, from lowland grasslands to montane plateaus but almost always associated with higher plants, especially angiosperms (flowering plants). [1]
It contains most of world's Lepidoptera names published until 1981 and for some groups is up to date. [1] As of May 2023, the site reads "Database last updated January 2018" so the current validity of the taxonomic combinations presented should be adopted with caution. [2] LepIndex allows anyone free internet access to:
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 which includes butterflies and moths.About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera have been described, representing 10% of the total described species of living organisms, [1] [2] making it the second largest insect order (behind Coleoptera) with 126 families [3] and 46 superfamilies ...
List of Lepidoptera of Norway; P. List of Lepidoptera of the Pitcairn Islands; Q. List of Lepidoptera of Qatar This page was last edited on 29 October 2014, at 10 ...
Lists of Lepidoptera by location (4 C, 10 P) B. Butterflies by location (6 C, 1 P) M. Moths by location (10 C) This page was last edited on 10 February 2017, at ...
List of national trees; List of world records held by plants; By classification. List of Anthurium species; List of bamboo species; List of basal eudicot families;
The insect order Lepidoptera consists of moths and butterflies (43 superfamilies). [1] Most moths are night-flying, while the butterflies (superfamily Papilionoidea ) are the mainly day-flying. Within Lepidoptera as a whole, the groups listed below before Glossata contain a few basal families accounting for less than 200 species; the bulk of ...
Lists of Lepidoptera genera (190 P) M. Lists of moths (1 C, 1 P) This page was last edited on 3 August 2013, at 05:06 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...