animal order - the order of animals

class Hexapoda, class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta - insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species

lepidopteran, lepidopteron, lepidopterous insect - insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales

family Nymphalidae, Nymphalidae - large beautifully colored butterflies

family Satyridae, Satyridae - a widely distributed family of butterflies common near the edges of woods

Danaidae, family Danaidae - small family of usually tropical butterflies: monarch butterflies

family Pieridae, Pieridae - cabbage butterflies; sulphur butterflies

family Lycaenidae, Lycaenidae - family of small usually brilliantly colored butterflies; males have short forelegs

family Tortricidae, Tortricidae - leaf rollers and codling moths

family Lymantriidae, Lymantriidae - tussock moths

family Geometridae, Geometridae - measuring worms

family Pyralidae, family Pyralididae, Pyralidae, Pyralididae - bee moths; corn borers; flour moths

superfamily Tineoidea, Tineoidea - clothes moths; carpet moths; leaf miners

family Gelechiidae, Gelechiidae - important economic pests

family Noctuidae, Noctuidae - cutworms; armyworms

family Sphingidae, Sphingidae - hawkmoths

Bombycidae, family Bombycidae - Chinese silkworm moth

family Saturniidae, Saturniidae - important and widely distributed family of moths including some of the largest insects known

Arctiidae, family Arctiidae - tiger moths

family Lasiocampidae, Lasiocampidae - tent caterpillars; eggars; lappet moths

caterpillar - a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth