Definition of Rhopalocera. Meaning of Rhopalocera. Synonyms of Rhopalocera

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Definition of Rhopalocera

Rhopalocera
Rhopalocera Rhop`a*loc"e*ra, n. pl. [NL., from Gr. ??? a club + ??? ahorn.] (Zo["o]l.) A division of Lepidoptera including all the butterflies. They differ from other Lepidoptera in having club-shaped antenn[ae].

Meaning of Rhopalocera from wikipedia

- the Papilionoidea, meaning that Papilionoidea would be synonymous with Rhopalocera. The relationships between the rest of the 6 families are extremely well...
- but the group is paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (suborder Rhopalocera) and neither subordinate taxon is used in modern classifications. Moths...
- are only as closely related to each other as either is to butterflies (Rhopalocera). Most bagworms are inoffensive to humans and incon****uous; some are...
- Retrieved 2022-01-14. Henley Grose-Smith and William Forsell Kirby,1887-1902 Rhopalocera exotica; being illustrations of new, rare, and unfigured species of butterflies...
- Butterflies are a natural monophyletic group, often given the suborder Rhopalocera, which includes Papilionoidea (true butterflies), Hesperiidae (skippers)...
- λεπίδος lepídos ("scale") and πτερόν ("wing"). Sometimes, the term Rhopalocera is used for the clade of all butterfly species, derived from the Ancient...
- his interest in natural history, and resulted in the publication of Rhopalocera Malayana (1882–1886), a description of the butterflies of the Malay Peninsula...
- they fall into eight different families. The butterflies form the clade Rhopalocera, which is composed of three superfamilies: Hedyloidea (the moth butterfly...
- Zoological Nomenclature". www.iczn.org. Media related to Holotypes at Wikimedia Commons BOA Photographs of type specimens of Neotropical Rhopalocera....
- New taxa and new records of butterflies from Vietnam (4) (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera). Atalanta 43(1-2): 156–164. full article (pdf) Malcolm G. P. Page &...