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This is a list of butterflies and moths—species of the order Lepidoptera—found in the U.S. state of Indiana. Butterflies ...
Pages in category "Lists of fauna of Indiana" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. ... List of Lepidoptera of Indiana; C.
Neonympha mitchellii is an endangered species of nymphalid butterfly of the eastern United States. [3] There are two known subspecies: [3] N. m. mitchellii, the nominate subspecies, commonly called Mitchell's satyr or Mitchell's marsh satyr, [5] is found in Michigan and Indiana. [3]
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 ...
[6] [7] The vast majority of Lepidoptera are to be found in the tropics, but substantial diversity exists on most continents. North America has over 700 species of butterflies and over 11,000 species of moths, [ 8 ] [ 9 ] while there are about 400 species of butterflies and 14,000 species of moths reported from Australia. [ 10 ]
The Butterflies of Indiana. Indiana Academy of Science. ISBN 0-253-31292-2; Rick Cech and Guy Tudor (2005). Butterflies of the East Coast. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. ISBN 0-691-09055-6; David L. Wagner (2005). Caterpillars of Eastern North America. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. ISBN 0-691-12143-5
Lepidoptera Indica was a 10 volume work on the butterflies of the Indian region that was begun in 1890 and completed in 1913. It was published by Lovell Reeve and Co. of London. It has been considered the magnum opus of its author, Frederic Moore , assistant curator at the museum of the East India Company.
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