Editing Lepidoptera (section)

=== Head ===
[[File:Caterpillar face close up.jpg|thumb|left|Face of a caterpillar with the mouthparts showing]]
The head is where many sensing organs and the mouth parts are found. Like the adult, the larva also has a toughened, or [[sclerite|sclerotized]] head capsule.<ref name="scoble_heads">Scoble (1995). Section ''The Adult Head – Feeding and Sensation'', (pp. 4–22).</ref> Here, two [[compound eye]]s, and ''chaetosema'', raised spots or clusters of sensory bristles unique to Lepidoptera, occur, though many taxa have lost one or both of these spots. The antennae have a wide variation in form among species and even between different sexes. The antennae of butterflies are usually filiform and shaped like clubs, those of the skippers are hooked, while those of moths have flagellar segments variously enlarged or branched. Some moths have enlarged antennae or ones that are tapered and hooked at the ends.<ref name="Resh and Carde">{{cite book |last=Resh |first=Vincent H. |author2=Ring T. Carde  |title=Encyclopedia of Insects |publisher=Academic Press |location=U. S. A. |date=1 July 2009 |edition=2 |isbn=978-0-12-374144-8}}</ref>{{Rp|559–560}}

The [[Galea (insects)|maxillary galeae]] are modified and form an elongated [[proboscis]]. The proboscis consists of one to five segments, usually kept coiled up under the head by small muscles when it is not being used to suck up nectar from flowers or other liquids. Some [[basal (phylogenetics)|basal]] moths still have [[mandible (insect mouthpart)|mandible]]s, or separate moving jaws, like their ancestors, and these form the family [[Micropterigidae]].<ref name="scoble_heads"/><ref name="Resh and Carde"/>{{Rp|560}}<ref name="Firefly">{{Cite book|last=Christopher|first=O'Toole|title=Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders|edition=1|isbn=978-1-55297-612-8|url=https://archive.org/details/fireflyencyclope0000unse_k0d2|year=2002|publisher=Firefly Books |url-access=registration}}</ref>

The larvae, called [[caterpillar]]s, have a toughened head capsule. Caterpillars lack the proboscis and have separate chewing [[Insect mouthparts|mouthparts]].<ref name="scoble_heads"/> These mouthparts, called [[mandible (insect mouthpart)|mandible]]s, are used to chew up the plant matter that the larvae eat. The lower jaw, or labium, is weak, but may carry a [[spinneret]], an organ used to create silk. The head is made of large lateral lobes, each having an ellipse of up to six simple eyes.<ref name="Resh and Carde"/>{{Rp|562–563}}