From Ancient Greek λεπίς (lepís, “scale”) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing”).
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Lepidoptera Sentence Examples
Lepidoptera are very brilliant in colouring.
A number of larvae of Lepidoptera feed on the leaves - the remedy is to capture the mature insects when possible.
Injurious insects occur among the following orders: Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera (both heteroptera and homoptera), Orthoptera, Neuroptera and Thysanoptera.
Schwangart, who has studied (1904) the embryonic insects, twenty-one of these divisions - not, however, all similar - development of Lepidoptera.
21, d) - such as may be noticed in the majority of the Lepidoptera - whose appendages are closely and immovably pressed to the body by a general hardening and fusion of the cuticle.