Lepidoptera
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Lepidoptera or lepidopterans are an order of winged insects which include butterflies and moths. About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera have been described, representing 8.6% of the total described
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Face of a caterpillar with the mouthparts showing
Caterpillar prolegs on Papilio machaon
Glossata
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Glossata is a suborder of the Lepidoptera, containing all members that have a coilable proboscis; i.e., it includes all butterflies and the vast majority of moth species. The only non-Glossatan moths
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…Triassic-Jurassic boundary from the cored Schandelah-1 well, drilled near Braunschweig in northern Germany. This pushes back the fossil record and origin of glossatan lepidopterans by about 70-90 million years, supporting molecular estimates of a Norian (ca 212 million years) divergence of glossatan and non-glossatan…
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