Lepidoptera

order of insects that includes butterflies and moths
Taxon taxon Q28319
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Lepidoptera

Summary

Lepidoptera is a taxon[1]. Lepidoptera ranks in the top 0.25% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,416 views/month, #484 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Lepidoptera's video is recorded as Acronicta psi - caterpillar 320px.ogv[3].
  • Lepidoptera's image is recorded as Danaus plexippus & Actias luna.jpg[4].
  • Lepidoptera's image is recorded as 00 3080 Mehliger Salbei (Salvia farinacea).jpg[5].
  • Lepidoptera's instance of is recorded as taxon[6].
  • Lepidoptera's taxon rank is recorded as order[7].
  • Lepidoptera's parent taxon is recorded as Endopterygota[8].
  • Lepidoptera's parent taxon is recorded as Amphiesmenoptera[9].
  • Lepidoptera's parent taxon is recorded as Holometabola[10].
  • Lepidoptera's taxon name is recorded as Lepidoptera[11].
  • Lepidoptera's GND ID is recorded as 4052831-5[12].
  • Lepidoptera's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85076067[13].
  • Lepidoptera's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11932240r[14].
  • Lepidoptera's subclass of is recorded as Pterygota[15].
  • Lepidoptera's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00569531[16].
  • Lepidoptera's Commons category is recorded as Lepidoptera[17].
  • Lepidoptera's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D007915[18].
  • Lepidoptera's Unicode character is recorded as 🦋[19].
  • Lepidoptera's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 2896[20].
  • Lepidoptera's start time is recorded as -200000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[21].
  • Lepidoptera's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0d_2m[22].
  • Lepidoptera's MeSH tree code is recorded as B01.050.500.131.617.720.500.500.937[23].
  • Lepidoptera's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 7088[24].
  • Lepidoptera's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph115365[25].
  • Lepidoptera's ITIS TSN is recorded as 117232[26].
  • Lepidoptera's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 747[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for Lepidoptera include butterflying[28], a knife cut[29].

Why It Matters

Lepidoptera ranks in the top 0.25% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,416 views/month, #484 of 195,241).[2] Lepidoptera has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] Lepidoptera is known by 69 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for Lepidoptera include butterflying[28], a knife cut[29].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Fossilworks. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Library of Congress Control Number. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . RAMEAU. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . 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. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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