Heterocera

group of mostly-nocturnal insects in the order Lepidoptera
Taxon taxon Q1725788
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Heterocera

Summary

Heterocera is a taxon[1]. Heterocera ranks in the top 0.2% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,082 views/month, #381 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Heterocera's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Heterocera is classified at the rank of suborder[4].
  • Heterocera is classified within Lepidoptera[5].
  • Under binomial nomenclature, Heterocera is Heterocera[6].
  • Heterocera is a type of Lepidoptera[7].
  • Heterocera's Commons category is recorded as Moths[8].
  • Heterocera's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Moths[9].
  • Heterocera's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[10].
  • Heterocera's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[11].
  • Heterocera's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • Heterocera's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • Heterocera's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • Heterocera's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[15].
  • Heterocera's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[16].
  • Heterocera's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[17].
  • Heterocera's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18].
  • Heterocera's different from is recorded as The Moth[19].
  • Heterocera's different from is recorded as moths[20].
  • Heterocera's different from is recorded as butterfly[21].
  • Heterocera's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[22].

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Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, Heterocera is Heterocera[6]. Heterocera is classified at the rank of suborder[4]. Heterocera belongs to the parent taxon Lepidoptera[5].

Discovery and Description

Things named for Heterocera include Antheraea polyphemus[23], a taxon[24]; software bug[25], a type of error[26]; and Moly.hu[27], a website[28], founded in 2008[29].

Why It Matters

Heterocera ranks in the top 0.2% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,082 views/month, #381 of 195,241).[2] Heterocera has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] Heterocera is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for Heterocera include Antheraea polyphemus[23], a taxon[24]; software bug[25], a type of error[26]; and Moly.hu[27], a website[28], founded in 2008[29].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [23] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [25] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [26] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [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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  1. 22d ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  2. 29d ago · Legonin · 2026-06-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Entityschema for this class {'id': 'E321', 'entity-type': 'entity-schema'}
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    Described by source Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus, Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary +6
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