Red-necked footman, Atolmis rubricollis 1,, four-spotted footman, Lithosia quadra 2-6, and buff footman, Katha depressa 7,9. 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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