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ˌMacrolepiˈdoptera, n. pl. Ent.
[f. macro- + Lepidoptera n. pl.]
A collective term for the larger butterflies and moths.
1882W. F. Kirby European Butterflies & Moths p. iii, The present work is designed to provide entomologists..with a comprehensive illustrated guide to the study of European Macro-Lepidoptera. 1907R. South Moths Brit. Isles 1st Ser. 6 Quite a number of the species included in that division [sc. Micro-lepidoptera] are actually larger than the many kinds that were placed in the other contingent styled Macro-lepidoptera. 1946Nature 12 Oct. 498/2 A well-worked group of insects such as the Macrolepidoptera affords admirable material for faunistic comparisons. 1955E. B. Ford Moths p. xv, The Macro-Lepidoptera are an artificial assemblage, consisting of an arbitrary selection of certain families, and parts of families, without scientific validity. 1972L. E. Chadwick tr. Linsenmaier's Insects of World 226/2 These families [sc. Microlepidoptera] consist of very small species, yet they are in no way separated from the others (the ‘Macrolepidoptera’). |