lepidopterous
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No, child; some lepidopterous insects always leave a drop of red fluid when emerging from the pupa state.
From Bee and Butterfly A Tale of Two Cousins by Madison, Lucy Foster
Thus, if the lepidopterous insect sees a continuous picture of its surroundings, such a picture is produced by the overlapping and blending, at their edges, of hundreds or thousands of distinct parts.
From Butterflies and Moths (British) by Furneaux, William S.
Scintilla, sin-til′a, n. a spark: a glimmer: the least particle: a trace: a genus of bivalve molluscs: a genus of lepidopterous insects.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
He leaves us, however, to imagine under what possible geographical conditions the climate in Europe could be too severe for a lepidopterous fauna, while at the same time Central Asia could maintain an abundant one.
From The History of the European Fauna by Scharff, Robert Francis
Salamis, sal′a-mis, n. a genus of lepidopterous insects.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
