Three truths
- Timed
- Branched off about 480 million years ago · the last 11% of life's story
- Named
- ≈160,000 named living species · 9.3% of all named
- Weighed
- Part of Arthropods (≈1 Gt C), not measured separately.
Eukaryotes · animals
Butterflies and moths
Living · roughly 160,000 described species
A full profile for this group has not been written yet. Its place in the tree and its dates are shown below.
Butterflies and moths, whose wings are covered in tiny scales.
- Branched off
- About 480 million years ago (approximate)
- Parent lineage
- Insects
Classification
Sources
- TimeTree: the timescale of life · TimeTree
- Open Tree of Life · Open Tree of Life
- Tree of Life Web Project · Tree of Life Web Project