Spotted clover, Schinia scutosa 1,2, Epilecta linogrisea 3, Guernsey underwing, Polyphaenis sericata 4, and straw underwing, Thalpophila matura 5,6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper’s Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Erlangen, 1786.

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