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Papilionidae PieridaePieridae A Green-veined White : Eukaryota : Animalia : Metazoa : Arthropoda : Hexapoda : Insecta : Pterygota : Neoptera : Endopterygota : Lepidoptera : Ditrysia Division: Rhopalocera : Papilionoidea Pieridae Author:Duponchel, 1835 Type species Pieris bras NymphalidaeApaturinae Argynninae Biblidinae Calinaginae Charaxinae Cyrestinae Danainae Heliconiinae Libytheinae Limenitidinae Morphinae Nymphalinae Satyrinae Author: Swainson, 1827 Type species: Nymphalis polychloros Large Tortoiseshell) Diversity: 633 genera, 5,698 LycaenidaeLycaenidae : Eukaryota : Animalia : Metazoa : Arthropoda : Hexapoda : Insecta : Pterygota : Neoptera : Endopterygota : Lepidoptera : Ditrysia : Rhopalocera : Papilionoidea Lycaenidae Author:Leach, 1815 Type species:? Diversity:? genera? species Subfamilie RiodinidaeRiodinidae is a classification of butterflies referred to as the Metalmark butterflies. Whether the Riodinidae are a distinct family within the superfamily Papilionoidea or a subfamily of Lycaenidae varies among different sources. There are approximately Libytheidae Lyeacnidae | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The superfamilyIn biology, a superfamily is a taxonomic grade intermediate between suborder and family. Plant superfamilies end with the suffix acea animal superfamilies end with oidea (although in older books the suffix acea is still used). Superfamily can also refer t Papilionoidea contains all the butterfliesFor other uses of the term "butterfly", see butterfly (disambiguation). Superfamily Hesperioidea: Hesperiidae Superfamily Papilionoidea: Papilionidae Pieridae Nymphalidae Lycaenidae Riodinidae Libytheidae Lyceanidae A butterfly is a flying insect of the o except for the skipperSkippers Long-tailed skipper : Eukaryota : Animalia : Metazoa : Arthropoda : Hexapoda : Insecta : Pterygota : Neoptera : Endopterygota : Lepidoptera : Ditrysia Division: Rhopalocera Hesperioidea Hesperiidae Author: Latreille, 1809 Type species Hesperia cos, which are classified in superfamily Hesperioidea.
Some authors treat this grouping as a series (Papilioniformes) within a single superfamily that also includes the skippers. However, all are agreed that, although all the butterflies constitute a single monophyleticIn phylogenetics, a group is monophyletic (greek: of one stem) if all organisms in that group are known to have developed from a common ancestral form, and all descendants of that form are included in the group. Taxonomic groups that contain organisms but clade, a distinction needs to be made between the skippers and the rest of the butterflies. Compared with the skippers, in the families that are here counted within Papilionoidea:
The families of Papilionoidea are: