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An order of insects, which includes the butterflies and moths. They have broad wings, covered with minute overlapping scales, usually brightly colored.

Of or pertaining to the Lepidoptera.

A tribe of Lepidoptera, including a vast number of minute species, as the plume moth, clothes moth, etc.

The spiral tubular proboscis of lepidopterous insects. See Lepidoptera.

A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera.

A division of Lepidoptera, including the butterflies; -- so called because they fly only in the daytime.

The Lepidoptera.

The sucking proboscis of various insects. See Lepidoptera, and Diptera.

A division of Lepidoptera, including the moths, and hawk moths, which have the antennæ variable in form.

One of the Lepidoptera.

One who studies the Lepidoptera.

The division of Lepidoptera which includes the butterflies.

One of the fleshy legs found on the abdominal segments of the larvæ of Lepidoptera, sawflies, and some other insects. Those of Lepidoptera have a circle of hooks. Called also proped, propleg, and falseleg.

pa, a pupa whose limbs are bound down and partly concealed by a chitinous covering, as in Lepidoptera.

A division of Lepidoptera including all the butterflies. They differ from other Lepidoptera in having club-shaped antennæ.

ns in the leaves or stems of plants in which to lay the eggs. The larvæ resemble those of Lepidoptera.

small scalelike structures covering parts of some invertebrates, as those on the wings of Lepidoptera and on the body of Thysanura; the elytra of certain annelids. See Lepidoptera.

Having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the lepidoptera; scaly-winged.

The practice of attracting the males of Lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the female confined in a cage.

A genus of small Lepidoptera, including the clothes moths and carpet moths.