Eastern eggar, Eriogaster catax, and small eggar, Eriogaster lanestris. Phalaena lentipes, Phalaena lanestris. 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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