Oak eggar moth, Lasiocampa quercifolia 1,2, and poplar lappet, Gastropacha populifolia 3,4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Georg Klinger from Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper’s Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Erlangen, 1786.

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