Dingy shell, Euchoeca nebulata1,2, dusky marbled brown, Gluphisia crenata 3,4, and brown rustic, Rusina ferruginea 5,6. Phalaena obliterata, Bombyx crenata, Bombyx ferruginea. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock from Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper’s Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Erlangen, 1786.

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