butterfly

group of insects in the order Lepidoptera
Taxon organisms_known_by_a_particular_common_name Q11946202
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butterfly

Summary

butterfly is an organisms known by a particular common name[1]. butterfly ranks in the top 6% of organisms_known_by_a_particular_common_name entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,700 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • butterfly's instance of is recorded as organisms known by a particular common name[3].
  • cream is named after butterfly[4].
  • butter is named after butterfly[5].
  • woman is named after butterfly[6].
  • butterfly's scientific name is Papilionoformes[7].
  • butterfly is a type of Pterygota[8].
  • butterfly is a type of Hexapoda[9].
  • butterfly's Commons category is recorded as Butterflies[10].
  • butterfly's said to be the same as is recorded as Papilionoidea[11].
  • butterfly's Unicode character is recorded as 🦋[12].
  • butterfly comprises compound eye[13].
  • butterfly comprises proboscis[14].
  • butterfly's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Butterflies[15].
  • butterfly's Commons gallery is recorded as Butterfly[16].
  • butterfly's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as zoo=butterfly[17].
  • butterfly's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedia of Armenian Nature[18].
  • butterfly's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[19].
  • butterfly's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[20].
  • butterfly's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[21].
  • butterfly's described by source is recorded as The Encyclopedia Americana[22].
  • butterfly's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[23].
  • butterfly's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[24].
  • butterfly's topic has template is recorded as Template:Taxonomy/Rhopalocera[25].
  • butterfly's has characteristic is recorded as holometabolism[26].
  • butterfly is commonly known as {'lang': 'pl', 'text': 'motyle dzienne'}[27].

Body

Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, butterfly is Papilionoformes[7]. Recorded taxon common name include {'lang': 'pl', 'text': 'motyle dzienne'}[27] and {'lang': 'pl', 'text': 'buławkorożne'}[28].

Discovery and Description

Things named after include cream[4]; butter[5], a dairy product[29], founded in -8000[30]; and woman[6]. Things named for butterfly include butterfly effect[31], a concept[32]; Kuaꞌkua[33], an exoplanet[34]; Severe Tropical Storm Wutip[35], a typhoon[36], in Philippines[37]; butterflying[38], a knife cut[39]; butterfly theorem[40], a theorem[41]; butterfly curve[42]; Butterfly Loop[43]; and Mount Chō[44], a mountain[45], in Japan[46].

Why It Matters

butterfly ranks in the top 6% of organisms_known_by_a_particular_common_name entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,700 views/month).[2] butterfly has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[47] butterfly is known by 45 alternative names across languages and contexts.[48]

Entities named for butterfly include butterfly effect[31], a concept[32]; Kuaꞌkua[33], an exoplanet[34]; Severe Tropical Storm Wutip[35], a typhoon[36], in Philippines[37]; butterflying[38], a knife cut[39]; butterfly theorem[40], a theorem[41]; and butterfly curve[42].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . butterfly.ucdavis.edu. Retrieved . butterfly.ucdavis.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . fileformat.info. Retrieved . fileformat.info. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Motyle i ćmy. wikidata.org.
  26. [28] . Motyle i ćmy. wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [31] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [33] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [35] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [38] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [40] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [42] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [43] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [44] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [36] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [37] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [39] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [41] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [45] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [46] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [47] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [48] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category Category:Butterflies
    Has parts
    Topic has template Template:Taxonomy/Rhopalocera
    Subclass of Pterygota, Hexapoda
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007293673305171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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