An international team discovered new types of butterflies that lay hidden in plain sight at the Natural History Museum.

The scientific name of a butterfly is Lepidoptera. Discover the classification of butterflies, family of butterfly, and more.

It’s a little after 6:30 on a brisk July morning in a stone hut high in the Italian Alps. A gently hissing wood fire is leaking some warmth out of a brick oven. Gathered near it, around a big wooden ...

The Museum’s Lepidoptera collection is one of the oldest, largest and certainly the most type rich. The collection contains 12.5 million pinned specimens and one million papered specimens housed in 80 ...

Lepidoptera are key pests that require control measures to avoid significant losses in many cropping systems worldwide. Failure to control key species can result in significant losses that impact the ...

Dr. Navneet Singh, a leading Lepidoptera taxonomist at the Zoological Survey of India, has received the prestigious Professor ...

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