Small butterflies

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Until the 20th century, butterflies were often divided into small butterflies ( Microlepidoptera ) and large butterflies ( Macrolepidoptera ), but it had been known for a long time that these were not real kin groups, but a purely practical subdivision based on the average Size of the animals. The size requires different preparation methods, among other things, and lepidopterists often specialize in families within one of the two groups. Where these terms are still used in specialist literature today, they are only used in a practical sense and not as taxonomic units. In secondary literature, on the other hand, for example in popular scientific field guides and on websites, the division into large and small butterflies is still occasionally used in the taxonomic sense due to ignorance of the primary literature. Many species of small butterflies have the name moth in their name. However, this term is often used colloquially for any type of night butterfly, which also includes very large butterflies, namely different species of swarms .

Some types

• Bird cherry web moth ( Yponomeuta evonymellus )
• Apple tree spun moth ( Yponomeuta malinellus )
• Meadow beak ( Crambus nemorellus )
• Silver borer ( Crambus perlellus )
• Large wax moth ( Galleria mellonella )
• Spruce cone ( Dioryctria abietella )
• Flour moth ( Ephestia kuehniella )
• Meatbone ( Pyralis farinalis )
• Common European Reedmill ( Chilo phragmitellus )
• Water lily borer ( Nymphula nymphaeata )
• Beech moth ( Diurnea fagella )
• Diurnea lipsiella
• Clothes moth ( Tineola bisselliella )
• Oak rottenwood moth ( Carcina quercana )
• Codling moth ( Cydia pomonella )
• Gray bud moth ( Hedya nubiferana )
• Oak leaf ( Totrix viridana )
• Fruit moth ( Pandemis heparana )
• Red currant moth ( Pandemis ribeana / cerasana )
• Pine shoot moth ( Rhyacionia buoliana )
• Pterophorus pentadactyla
• Bud miner moth ( Coleophora hemerobiella )
• Larch leaf miner ( Coleophora laricella )
• Horse chestnut leaf miner ( Cameraria ohridella )
• Robinia Monier Moth ( Phyllonorycter robiniella )
• Plum blossom moth ( Argyresthia pruniella )
• Apple fruit moth ( Argyresthia conjugella )
• Snake leaf miner ( Lyonetia clerkella )

swell

literature

• Hans Georg Amsel (Hrsg.), Reinhard Gaedike (Hrsg.): Microlepidoptera palaearctica . 10 volumes 1965–2002. Partly published by Goecke and Evers, Keltern, by Fromme, Vienna, and by Braun, Karlsruhe
• Thomas Kaltenbach, Peter Victor Küppers: Small butterflies. Verlag J. Neudamm-Neudamm, Melsungen 1987, ISBN 3-788-80510-2
• Peter Victor Küppers: Small butterflies. Fauna Verlag, Nottuln 2008, ISBN 978-3-935980-24-1