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Nymphalidae   Listen
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Nymphalidae  n.  A natural family of large beautifully colored butterflies, called also the brush-footed butterflies; formerly called Nymphales.
Synonyms: family Nymphalidae.





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"Nymphalidae" Quotes from Famous Books



... plainly but often very richly coloured. Of these my own collection contains 16 species from Celebes and 15 from Borneo; but whereas no less than 14 are confined to the former island, only two are peculiar to the latter. The Nymphalidae are a very extensive group, of generally strong-winged and very bright-coloured butterflies, very abundant in the tropics, and represented in our own country by our Fritillaries, our Vanessas, and our Purple-emperor. Some months ago ...
— The Malay Archipelago - Volume I. (of II.) • Alfred Russel Wallace


Words linked to "Nymphalidae" :   genus Limenitis, brush-footed butterfly, nymphalid butterfly, genus Apatura, Lepidoptera, family Nymphalidae, Argynnis, genus Nymphalis, genus Vanessa, nymphalid, Limenitis, order Lepidoptera, Nymphalis, Vanessa, Polygonia, Inachis, arthropod family, four-footed butterfly


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