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This is a strongly revised new edition of the authors' An illustrated Key to European Sesiidae published in 1995 published in a very limited edition and out of print within three months. The present book contains comprehensive information on all European species of this Lepidoptera family of day flying moths. All the many taxonomical, biological and distributional changes of the last years are included. Introductory chapters comprise a short historical outline, brief information on the morphology, biology, phylogeny and distribution as well as collecting and rearing methods, and lists of…mehr

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This is a strongly revised new edition of the authors' An illustrated Key to European Sesiidae published in 1995 published in a very limited edition and out of print within three months. The present book contains comprehensive information on all European species of this Lepidoptera family of day flying moths. All the many taxonomical, biological and distributional changes of the last years are included. Introductory chapters comprise a short historical outline, brief information on the morphology, biology, phylogeny and distribution as well as collecting and rearing methods, and lists of European Sesiidae and their hostplants. Keys to all European genera and species are provided. The main part of the book presents a systematic survey of all European species. Diagnostic morphological characters, bionomics and distribution in each species are shortly described. For each species line drawings of male and female genitalia are given, for some species also other diagnostic characters. The di