belonging or pertaining to the Lepidoptera, an order of insects comprising the butterflies, moths, and skippers, that in the adult state have four membranous wings more or less covered with small scales
Also: lepidopteral
Word origin
[1790–1800; lepidopter(a) + -ous]
Examples of 'lepidopterous' in a sentence
lepidopterous
Phytophagous insects, such as homopterans and lepidopterous larvae, were not affected by carabid exclusion and removal.
R Carrillo, R Alarcón, M Neira 2007, 'The effects of carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) on the arthropod fauna of wheatfields in Chile', Revista de Biología Tropicalhttp://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-77442007000100010. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)