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diff --git a/site/article/butterfly/content b/site/article/butterfly/content new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5ecbc59 --- /dev/null +++ b/site/article/butterfly/content @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade +Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. +Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, +and conspicuous, fluttering flight. +The group comprises the large superfamily Papilionoidea, +which contains at least one former group, +the skippers (formerly the superfamily "Hesperioidea"), +and the most recent analyses suggest it also contains the moth-butterflies +(formerly the superfamily "Hedyloidea"). +Butterfly fossils date to the Paleocene, about 56 million years ago. |