lepidopter- +

1. An order of insects, which includes the butterflies and moths.

They have broad wings, covered with minute overlapping scales, usually brightly colored.

2. An order of the class Insecta that includes the butterflies, moths, and skippers; characterized by scaly wings, sucking mouth parts, and complete metamorphosis.

Belonging to or pertaining to the Lepidoptera.

Any of various insects of the order Lepidoptera, characterized by four large, flat, membranous wings covered with small scales.

The larvae of lepidopterans are caterpillars. Lepidopterans include butterflies, moths, and skippers.

Someone who studies the Lepidoptera.

1. An entomologist who specializes in the collection and study of butterflies and moths.
2. A person who studies the order of insects called Lepidoptera, a large order including butterflies and moths.

The branch of zoology dealing with butterflies and moths.

Any lepidopterous insect.

A collector of butterflies: In college, the biology students studied lepidopterology and learned a lot about the different kinds of moths and butterflies, and Mr. Smith, a lepidopterophist, even had a collection of butterflies for the students to view.

A reference to the pollination by butterflies and moths: Lepidopterophilous flowers are those that are fertilized by butterflies that land on a flower to drink the nectar and then transfer the pollen from flower to flower while drinking more and more nectar.

A special attraction to, or fondness for, butterflies: Little Jenny loved watching and was fascinated by the butterflies sitting on flowers and drinking the nectar int the garden. Her parents thought that her lepidopterophily could be encouraged by a book or two including colored pictures and descriptions of the varieties of butterflies and moths.

A reference to an order of insects comprising the butterflies, moths, and skippers; which in the adult state have four membranous wings more or less covered with small scales.

Lepidotrichia are bony, bilaterally-paired, segmented fin rays found in bony fishes.

They develop around actinotrichia as part of the dermal exoskeleton. Lepidotrichia may also have some cartilage or bone in them. They are actually segmented and appear as a series of disks stacked on top of each other.

Lepidoptera (as butterflies, skippers, saturniids, and noctuids) that include most of the large forms and none of the minute ones.

Traditionally used for the larger butterflies and moths as opposed to the Microlepidoptera.

1. A tribe of Lepidoptera, including a vast number of minute species; such as, the plume moth, clothes moth, etc.
2. Lepidopterous insects (as tortricids) that belong to families of minute or medium-sized moths.

A tiny moth; such as, a leaf miner, that is of little interest to a collector.