Butterflies and moth belong to the order Lepidoptera. Lepidos is Greek for "scales" and ptera means "wing". These scaled wings are different from the wings of any other insects. Lepidoptera is a very large group; there are more types of butterflies and moths than there are of any other type of insects except beetles. It is estimated that there are about 120,000 different species of butterflies and moths.

Kingdom Animalia

Phylum Arthropoda

Class Insecta

Order Lepidoptera

Family Pieridae

Genus Anthocharis

Species Cardamines