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The family's genus, ''Papilifictus'', can be split up into two parts, ''Papili'' and ''fictus''. ''Papili'' may be derived from the word papilio which is a genus of the swallowtail butterfly family, it is also latin for butterfly. ''ficus'' is latin for fake, this is in relation to the fact that the Snowflake Fluttertail is actually a moth, not a butterfly. Therefore, putting the two words together creates 'fake butterfly' or more specifically, 'fake swallowtail butterfly', which is exactly what the Snowflake Fluttertail is. | The family's genus, ''Papilifictus'', can be split up into two parts, ''Papili'' and ''fictus''. ''Papili'' may be derived from the word papilio which is a genus of the swallowtail butterfly family, it is also latin for butterfly. ''ficus'' is latin for fake, this is in relation to the fact that the Snowflake Fluttertail is actually a moth, not a butterfly. Therefore, putting the two words together creates 'fake butterfly' or more specifically, 'fake swallowtail butterfly', which is exactly what the Snowflake Fluttertail is. | ||
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|Fra= camoufloptères | |||
|FraM= From "camouflage" and the suffix -ptère (-ptera) | |||
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