do butterflies have a backbone Hello again. Welcome to solsarin. Do you know anything about butterflies? This post is about “do butterflies have a backbone“. Butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises the large superfamily Papilionoidea, which contains at least one …