Definition of Rhopaloceras. Meaning of Rhopaloceras. Synonyms of Rhopaloceras

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Definition of Rhopaloceras

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 Rhopaloceras 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...
- λεπίδος lepídos ("scale") and πτερόν ("wing"). Sometimes, the term Rhopalocera is used for the clade of all butterfly species, derived from the Ancient...
- Butterflies are a natural monophyletic group, often given the suborder Rhopalocera, which includes Papilionoidea (true butterflies), Hesperiidae (skippers)...
- his interest in natural history, and resulted in the publication of Rhopalocera Malayana (1882–1886), a description of the butterflies of the Malay Peninsula...
- 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...
- Zoological Nomenclature". www.iczn.org. Media related to Holotypes at Wikimedia Commons BOA Photographs of type specimens of Neotropical Rhopalocera....
- to the butterflies of Russia and adjacent territories (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera). Vol. 1. Sofia-Moscow: Pensoft-Press, 480 p., 79 col. plates. Warren...
- of the Nymphalidæ. The Nymphalidæ are a part of the suborder of the Rhopalocera, or true butterflies, one of the two great subdivisions of the order...
- of nature. Pryer said in the introduction to his butterfly monograph Rhopalocera Nihonica that he had devoted 16 years (i.e. all the time he had been...