Lepidoptera

通用名稱：

Butterflies and moths

分配：

Every continent except Antarctica

棲息地：

Diverse habitats including tropical (rain) forests, wetlands, grasslands, mountains, and deserts

飲食：

Foliage (Larvae) + floral nectar and other liquid substances (Adults)

全球物種數量：

165,000

香港的物種數量：

240 (butterflies)+ >2400 (moths) = 2640

形態學
（如何識別它們）：

-With tiny, scaly on the body and wings
-Possess two pairs of wings which are overlapped
-With multi-segmented antennae, club-shaped with a long shaft and a bulb at the end (butterflies), feathery/ saw-edged (moths)
-Mouth parts usually form a proboscis (elephant trunk-like) for taking nectar and other liquids, which rests rolled up when not eating.

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你可知道？

For mating, courtship display, and odors are involved. Either sex releases a scent that is detected by the mate’s antennae. Saturniid moths like Luna Moth and Atlas Moth, have mouthparts entirely non-functional, hence, cannot feed in the adult stage. In another way, they have to eat as much as they can during the larval stage (caterpillars) and ensure the nutrient intake could support them for their whole life cycle. And the short life span of some moths could be explained by the deterioration of the mouthpart.