Lepidoptera

How to use Lepidoptera in a sentence

• Collectors of Lepidoptera rose in shoals to the printed offer of luna moths measuring ten and eleven inches across the wings.

  Average Jones | Samuel Hopkins Adams

• The larv of one genus (Panorpa) are remarkable for their great resemblance to the larv of Lepidoptera.

  Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects | C. V. Riley

• The beating net is an important instrument for collecting all insects excepting mature Lepidoptera, which are apt to get rubbed.

  Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects | C. V. Riley

• On the other hand, our knowledge of the earlier states of Coleoptera is yet very imperfect as compared with the Lepidoptera.

  Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects | C. V. Riley

• The larv of Lepidoptera found late in the fall are very apt to be parasitized, and should be collected and kept over the winter.

  Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects | C. V. Riley