Glossata

Glossata
	Plume moth from family Pterophoridae on Boerhavia diffusa in Hyderabad, India.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Clade:	Euarthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Suborder:	Glossata; (Fabricius, 1775)
Infraorders
	Acanthoctesia; Dacnonypha; Exoporia; Heteroneura; Lophocoronina; Neopseustina;

Glossata (Fabricius, 1775) is the suborder of the insect order Lepidoptera that contains most lepidopteran species and includes all the superfamilies of moths and butterflies that have a coilable proboscis. (See also the suborders Zeugloptera, Aglossata, and Heterobathmiina).^[1]

References

Data related to Glossata at Wikispecies

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