nymphalid in English
noun
1
an insect of a large family of strikingly marked butterflies that have small forelegs not used for walking, including many familiar butterflies of temperate regions, such as the monarch and viceroy.
Our work includes representative taxa from all the main lineages of riodinids, lycaenids, and nymphalids .
noun
brush-footed butterfly
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1. [butterfly] Protoploea Apatela, with the common name `Magpie,` is a species of nymphalid butterfly in the Danainae subfamily
2. 13 Its proboscis and legs acting like pollen magnets, a nymphalid butterfly feeds on a sunflower near Sonoita, Arizona.