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Tineidae
- brwonish or yellowish
- wings often narrow and pointed
- hindwings narrower than forewings
- Fringed wings
- tiny moths
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Yponomeutidae
- Narrowing forewings
- brightly spotted patterns
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Sesiidae
- wasplike in shape and size
- forewing long and narrow
- broad hindwing
- wings with areas devoid of scales
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Tortricidae
- smal
- brownish gray
- forewing square-tipped
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Pterophoridae
- hindwing with 3 lobes
- long legged
- look like a hairy mosquito
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Pyralidae
- small, drab
- forewings triangular
- hindwings rounded
- wings held obliquely at rest
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Hesperiidae
- Hairy bodied
- only lepidoptera to have hooked antennae
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Papilionidae
- large
- dark and yellow coloration
- hindwings with 1-3 tails
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Pieridae
- White, yellow, and orange with dark borders
- hindwings more rounded
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Lycaenidae
- small
- brightly colored and iridescent
- fringe of white hairs encircle eyes
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Libytheinae
- have a big snout
- reddish brown with white spots on forewings
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Nymphalinae
- outer wing margins sculptured
- hairy eyes
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Satyrinae
eyespots in the wings
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Danainae
monarch butterflies
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Sphingidae
- medium to large
- cigar shaped body
- long and narrow forewing
- short hindwings
- broadened antennae
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Geometridae
- small
- broad wings with fine wavy lines
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Lasiocampidae
- stout body
- hairy
- well developed hindwing
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Saturniidae
- Large
- brightly colored
- transparent spots in wings
- feathery antennae
- reduced mouthparts
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Arctiidae
- small to medium
- stout body
- whites, yellows, oranges
- bands or spots on wings
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Noctuidae
- hindwings different color than forewings
- slender antennae
- Some have patterns that continue from forewing to hindwing
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