Paralleling the increase in size is an overall trend from the internal feeding (endophytophagy) typical of non-ditrysians (though not Micropterigidae), to concealed external feeding (leaf rolling, leaf tying and the like), widespread in non-obtectomeran ditrysians, to the exposed external phytophagy typical of most families of Macroheterocera and of butterflies [48] .
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A large-scale, higher-level, molecular phylogenetic study of the insect order Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies).
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