Species list, Checklist of Suborder Glossata (Modern butterflies and moths) for Table Mountain (Cape Town)

Ants	Arachnids
Bees	Beetles
Booklice	Bugs
Bumblebees	Butterflies
Cicadas	Crane flies
Dragonflies	Earwigs
Flies	Isopods
Locusts	Mantises
Mayflies	Mosquitoes
Myriapods	Net-winged
Plant-parasitic	Scorpion flies
Termites	Wasps

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Checklist for Suborder Glossata Fabricius, 1775 (Modern butterflies and moths)
and region Table Mountain (Cape Town)

Class	Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 Insects, True insects	13 22 23	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Pterygota Lang, 1888 Winged insects	13 22 23	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Neoptera van der Wulp, 1890 Modern Wing-folding insects	13 22 23	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Holometabola Heider, 1889 Holometabolous Insects	13 22 23	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758 Butterflies, Lepidopterans, Moths	3 5 4	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Glossata Fabricius, 1775 Modern butterflies and moths	3 5 4	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Table Mountain (Cape Town)
3 Families width 4 Species

Nymphalidae Rafinesque, 1815	Admirals	2	Species	Taxom
Lycaenidae (Leach, 1815)	Blue butterflies	1	Species	Taxom
Geometridae Leach, 1815	Cankerworm moths	1	Species	Taxom

Genera for Table Mountain (Cape Town)
5 Genera with 4 Species

Aeropetes Billberg, 1764		1	Species	Taxom
Leptomyrina Butler, 1898		0	Species	Taxom
Orgyiodes Felder, 1862		1	Species	Taxom
Poecilmitis Butler, 1864	Coppers	1	Species	Taxom
Stygionympha Van Son, 1887		1	Species	Taxom

Species list for Table Mountain (Cape Town)
4 Species

Aeropetes tulbaghia Linnaeus, 1764	Mountain Pride
Orgyiodes caparia Walker, 1862
Poecilmitis chrysaor (Trimen, 1864)	⇒ Chrysoritis chrysaor Trimen, 1864
Stygionympha vigilans Trimen, 1887	Western Hillside Brown

Subnodes of Glossata with occurrences in Table Mountain (Cape Town)

Infraorder

Heteroneura
Tillyard, 1918

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