Lepidoptera Definition

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.

• Schwangart, who has studied (1904) the embryonic insects, twenty-one of these divisions - not, however, all similar - development of Lepidoptera.

• His classification was founded mainly on the nature of the wings, and five of his orders - the Hymenoptera (bees, ants, wasps, &c.), Coleoptera (beetles), Diptera (two-winged flies), Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies), and Hemiptera (bugs, cicads, &c.) - are recognized to-day with nearly the same limits as he laid down.

• See Lepidoptera.