Swathed in bright and beautiful colors, butterflies (Lepidoptera) are among the most diverse animals on the planet. There are ...

Examples of fossilized Lepidoptera scales: The oldest wing and body scales of primitive moths from the Schandelah-1 core photographed with transmitted light (magnification 630x). The scales are part ...

Fossil Lepidoptera have been reported from a few exceptional deposits. For example, butterflies are known from the famous Florissant fossil beds of North America dating from the Eocene epoch, 34 ...

Regier JC, Mitter C, Davis DR, Harrison TL, Sohn JC, Cummings MP, Zwick A, Mitter KT. 2015. A molecular phylogeny and revised classification for the oldest ditrysian moth lineages (Lepidoptera: ...

At night, porch lights, stadium lights and street lamps are regularly visited by moths, a collective term for most of the nocturnal members of the insect order called Lepidoptera. Butterflies are also ...

Larval diets of tropical Lepidoptera are more specialized than those of their temperate forest counterparts: tropical species on average feed on fewer plant species, genera and families than do ...

Tamara Moraes, Alexandre Ferreira da Silva, Natália Alves Leite, Décio Karam, Simone Martins Mendes, Survival and development of fall armyworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in weeds during the off-season, ...

As we digitise the Lepidoptera collections we are georeferencing each record, mapping the distribution of the collections and revealing collecting trends since the mid-nineteenth century. To do this ...

On a mid-summer day in the snow tussock grasslands of the rugged Lammermoor Range in Otago more than 40 years ago, butterfly ...