BUTTERFLY
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insect
Note: Insects (Class Insecta) are a major group of arthropods and the most diverse group of animals on the Earth, with over a million described species: more than all other animal groups combined.
holometabolous
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also called complete metamorphism, is a term applied to insect groups to describe the specific kind of insect development which includes four life stages - as an embryo, a larva, a pupa and an imago.
metamorphosis
Note: Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's form or structure through cell growth and differentiation.
life cycle
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egg
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caterpillars
Note: Caterpillars (or Larvae) are multi-legged eating machines. They consume plant leaves and spend practically all of their time in search of food.
pupa
Note: The larva transforms into a pupa (or chrysalis) by anchoring itself to a substrate and moulting for the last time. The chrysalis is usually incapable of movement, although some species can rapidly move the abdominal segments or produce sounds to scare potential predators.
adult / imago
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metamorphosis
classification
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order Lepidoptera
Note: In scientific classification used in biology, the order is a rank between class and family (termed a taxon at that rank).
3 super families
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Papilionoidea (true butterflies)
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5 families
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Papilionidae
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Swallowtails
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Birdwings
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Pieridae
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Whites
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Yellows
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Lycaenidae
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Blues
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Coppers
Note: also called the Gossamer-Winged Butterflies
Riodinidae
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Metalmark butterflies
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Nymphalidae
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Brush-footed butteflies
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17 500 species
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Hesperioidea
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skippers
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Hedyloidea
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American moth butterflies
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origin
Note: Butterflies are nested within the evolutionary tree of moths.
Cretaceous Period
Note: In terms of geological timescale, the Cretaceous is the longest geological period, it constitutes nearly half of the Mesozoic. Cretaceous Period has ended 65 million years ago.
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