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Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies)
Life
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> Insecta (insects) > Dicondyla > Pterygota >
Metapterygota > Neoptera > Eumetabola > Holometabola > Panorpida > Amphiesmenoptera
 Painted lady Vanessa cardui
Maid Alice Syntomis alicia pair mating. |
Prickly pear moth Cactoblastis cactorum female
laying eggs in 'egg stick'. |
Moths and butterflies are distinguished from other insects by having scales on their
wings. Butterflies can usually be distinguished from moths by their clubbed antennae.
Micropterigidae
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Glossata
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Coelolepida
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Myoglossata
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Neolepidoptera
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Hepialoidea
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Prototheoridae
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Hepialidae (ghost moths)
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Heteroneura
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Nepticuloidea
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Nepticulidae
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Opostegidae
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Incurvarioidea
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Heliozelidae
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Adelidae
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Incurvariidae
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Cecidosidae
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Prodoxidae
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Tischerioidea
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Tischeriidae
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DITRYSIA
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Publications
Southern African moths and butterflies
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Kroon, D.M. 1999. Lepidoptera of Southern
Africa - Host-plants and other Associations. A Catalogue. Published by
the author and Lepidopterists' Society of Africa, P.O. Box 477, Jukskei Park
2153, South Africa.
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Migdoll, I. 1987. Field Guide to the Butterflies of
Southern Africa. C. Struik Publishers, Cape Town.
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Pinhey, E.C.G. 1975. Moths of Southern
Africa. Tafelberg, Cape Town.
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Pringle, E.L.L., Henning, G.A. & Ball, J.B. 1994.
Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa. Second edition. Struik
Winchester, Cape Town.
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Vári, L., Kroon, D.M. and Krüger, M. 2002.
Classification and Checklist of the Species of Lepidoptera
Recorded in Southern Africa. Privately Published (ISBN
0-620-29110-9; available from P.O. Box 572, Sasolburg 1947,
South Africa).
Biology of Lepidoptera
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