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Lepidoptera

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
ORDER
Published in
Linnaeus, C. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. 1-824 (1758).

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Insecta
order
Lepidoptera

Name

Homonyms
Lepidoptera
Common names
Borboleta in Portuguese
Butterflies in English
Butterflies in English
Butterflies And Moths in English
Butterflies And Moths in English
Mariposa in Portuguese
Moth in English
Moth in English
Moths in English
Moths in English
Motte in German
Papillons in French
Sommerfugle in Danish
butterflies in English
butterflies and moths in English
moth in English
moth in English
moths in English
papillons in French
papillons de nuit in French
perhoset in Finnish
vlinders in Dutch
Butterflies & Moths in English
Butterflies & Moths in English
Butterflies & moths in English
beaivelottit in Northern Sami
butterflies and moths in English
fjärilar in Swedish
sommarfuglar in Nynorsk, Norwegian
sommerfugler in Norwegian Bokmål
Butterflies in English
Caterpillar in English
Caterpillar in English
Caterpillar in English
Invertebrates (Butterflies) in English
Invertebrates (Moths) in English
Invertebrates (butterflies) in English
Invertebrates (butterflies) in English
Invertebrates (moths) in English
Invertebrates (moths) in English
Moths in English
Unidentified Lepidopteran in English
Unidentified Lepidopteran in English
Unidentified Lepidopteran in English
鱗翅目 in Japanese

Bibliographic References

  1. Brusca, Richard C., Gonzalo Giribet, and Wendy Moore, 2022: Chapter 22: Phylum Arthropoda: Subphylum Hexapoda: Insects and Their Kin. Invertebrates, Fourth Edition. 735-783.
  2. Brusca, Richard C., and Gary J. Brusca, 2002: null. Invertebrates, Second Edition. xx + 936.
  3. De Pauw, N. & Vannevel, R. (eds.) (1991)
  4. Elmquist, Liljeberg, Top-Jensen & Fibiger (2011) Sveriges fjärilar - En fälthandbok över Sveriges samtliga dag- och nattfjärilar.
  5. Fauna Europaea (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4.
  6. Gärdenfors, Hall, Hallingbäck, Hansson & Hedström (2003) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj.
  7. Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p.
  8. Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
  9. Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
  10. Ruggiero, M. A.; Gordon, D. P.; Orrell, T. M.; Bailly, N.; Bourgoin, T.; Brusca, R. C.; Cavalier-Smith, T.; Guiry, M. D.; Kirk, P. M. (2015). A higher level classification of all living organisms. <em>PLOS ONE.</em> 10(4): e0119248. 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248
  11. van Nieukerken, E. J.; Kaila, L.; Kitching, I. J.; Kristensen, N. P.; Lees, D. C.; et al. (2011). Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3148: 212-221.
  12. van Nieukerken, E. J.; Kaila, L.; Kitching, I. J.; Kristensen, N. P.; Lees, D. C.; et al. (2011). Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3148: 212-221.
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