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Lepidoptera in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae

Okay, so imagine you have a really big book that tells you about all the different animals in the world. This book is called Systema Naturae and it has been updated lots of times so that it can include new animals that people find out about.

In the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, there was a section about something called Lepidoptera. This is just a fancy name for all the different types of insects that we call butterflies and moths.

Now, in this section of the book, the people who wrote it wanted to organize all the different types of butterflies and moths into groups so that it would be easier for people to study and learn about them. They did this by looking at things like their wings, their colors, and where they live.

They ended up creating a system where they put all the butterflies and moths into groups called families, and then they put those families into bigger groups called orders. This just helped to keep everything organized so that people could look at the book and know which families and orders different types of butterflies and moths belonged to.

So, in summary, the 10th edition of Systema Naturae had a section about Lepidoptera, which is just a fancy name for butterflies and moths. In this section, the people who wrote it organized all the different types of these insects into groups called families and orders to help make it easier for people to learn about them.