How are moths classified?
Moths belong to the Insecta class and are in the Saturniidae family. Both moths and butterflies belong to the order of Lepidoptera. This comes from Greek words meaning scale (lepis) and wing (pteron).
Is Lepidoptera a family or genus?
Like most other insects, butterflies and moths are holometabolous, meaning they undergo complete metamorphosis….Lepidoptera.
| Lepidoptera Temporal range: Early Jurassic–Present, | |
|---|---|
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| (unranked): | Amphiesmenoptera |
| Order: | Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758 |
What are the families of Lepidoptera?
Family Lycaenidae (blues, coppers, hairstreaks, and metalmarks)
How do you classify moths and butterflies?
Classification
- Kingdom: Animalia.
- Phylum: Arthropoda.
- Subphylum: Hexapoda. Class: Insecta. Order: Lepidoptera.
What phylum is a moth in?
ArthropodLepidoptera / Phylum
What is the taxonomy of a grasshopper?
Integrated Taxonomic Information System – Report
| Order | Orthoptera – grasshoppers, locusts, criquet-locustes, locustes, sauterelles, gafanhoto, grilo, crickets, katydids |
| Suborder | Caelifera |
| Infraorder | Acrididea |
| Superfamily | Acridoidea MacLeay, 1819 |
| Family | Acrididae MacLeay, 1819 – grasshoppers, short-horned grasshoppers |
How many species of Lepidoptera are there?
In terms of species numbers, Lepidoptera is among the four largest insect orders, the others being the Coleoptera (beetles), Diptera (flies) and Hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps & sawflies). Worldwide there are probably about 300,000 species of Lepidoptera, of which only an estimated 14,500 or about 5% are butterflies.