Lepidoptera

Common Name: butterflies, moths, skippers

Order Name Means: "scale wing"

Hypognathous with long, coiled probosis

Neopterous, Endopterygote

Antennae multi-segmented and comb-like; slubbed in butterflies; hooked in skippers

Wings with double layer of scales

Larvae, caterpillars with sclerotized, mandibulate head

Larvae sometimes with crochets and abdominal prolegs