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Rhopalocera   Listen
noun
Rhopalocera  n. pl.  (Zool.) A division of Lepidoptera including all the butterflies. They differ from other Lepidoptera in having club-shaped antennae.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Rhopalocera" Quotes from Famous Books



... when I enthusiastically reported it to a professional lepidopterist he brushed it aside. "A common occurrence the world over, Rhopalocera gathered in damp places to drink." I, too, had observed apparently similar phenomena along icy streams in Sikkim, and around muddy buffalo-wallows in steaming Malay jungles. And I can recall many years ago, leaning far out of a New England buggy to watch clouds of little sulphurs flutter ...
— Edge of the Jungle • William Beebe



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