Lepidoptera

Quality:

Lepidoptera - order of insects that includes butterflies and moths. This taxon is the 98^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 544^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Lepidoptera” in English Wikipedia has 92.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 241 references and 43 sections.

This article has the best quality in Russian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 544^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4839^th most popular in all topics.

The 3818^th most popular in AI.

The 98^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 6354^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Lepidoptera” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 26 authors in all languages (6354^th place).

Since the creation of article “Lepidoptera”, its content was written by 516 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 4016 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3818^th place).

Lepidoptera is on the 544^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 98^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 100641 times in English Wikipedia (92^nd place) and cited 666431 times in all languages (130^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2651 in June 2002
• Global: #460 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2726 in August 2010
• Global: #1866 in April 2008

There are 52 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Russian (ru) Чешуекрылые		100
2	Galician (gl) Lepidópteros		94.9947
3	Dutch (nl) Vlinders		93.9097
4	German (de) Schmetterlinge		93.3587
5	English (en) Lepidoptera		92.8441
6	Armenian (hy) Թիթեռներ		87.0422
7	French (fr) Lepidoptera		85.1667
8	Portuguese (pt) Lepidoptera		74.1466
9	Chinese (zh) 鱗翅目		68.338
10	Serbian (sr) Лептири		62.4263

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Spanish (es) Lepidoptera		8 712 347
2	English (en) Lepidoptera		6 564 104
3	German (de) Schmetterlinge		5 074 937
4	Polish (pl) Motyle		3 105 144
5	French (fr) Lepidoptera		2 959 606
6	Russian (ru) Чешуекрылые		2 926 754
7	Dutch (nl) Vlinders		1 600 282
8	Turkish (tr) Pul kanatlılar		1 059 451
9	Italian (it) Lepidoptera		918 907
10	Swedish (sv) Fjärilar		911 556

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lepidoptera		28 641
2	Spanish (es) Lepidoptera		15 317
3	German (de) Schmetterlinge		13 610
4	French (fr) Lepidoptera		9 184
5	Russian (ru) Чешуекрылые		8 255
6	Dutch (nl) Vlinders		3 522
7	Polish (pl) Motyle		3 394
8	Italian (it) Lepidoptera		2 907
9	Japanese (ja) チョウ目		2 555
10	Czech (cs) Motýli		2 491

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lepidoptera		516
2	German (de) Schmetterlinge		440
3	Spanish (es) Lepidoptera		326
4	French (fr) Lepidoptera		324
5	Dutch (nl) Vlinders		314
6	Russian (ru) Чешуекрылые		234
7	Polish (pl) Motyle		165
8	Italian (it) Lepidoptera		113
9	Turkish (tr) Pul kanatlılar		105
10	Hebrew (he) פרפראים		104

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lepidoptera		5
2	Spanish (es) Lepidoptera		5
3	Hungarian (hu) Lepkék		3
4	Catalan (ca) Lepidòpters		2
5	Turkish (tr) Pul kanatlılar		2
6	Danish (da) Sommerfugle		1
7	German (de) Schmetterlinge		1
8	French (fr) Lepidoptera		1
9	Hebrew (he) פרפראים		1
10	Dutch (nl) Vlinders		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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