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[-] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 17 points 11 months ago

Butterflies are considered to have evolved from moths.

[-] pedz@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

In French they are all butterflies (papillons). There once was a distinction between butterflies and night butterflies (moths) but apparently it's now obsolete and they are just all lepidoptera.

[-] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 1 points 11 months ago

That seems crazy. All butterflies come from moths, so it'd make more sense for Papillon to mean moth. It's like calling everything from the order Rodentia a Capybara, or everything in Eulipotyphla a hedgehog, both things within those orders in smaller numbers.

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