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Cossidae

Approximately 700 species have been described in this family of cosmopolitan distribution (Schoorl 1990).
Identification: de Freina & Witt 1990, Forster & Wohlfahrt 1960, Hoffmeyer 1974, Koch 1964, Razowski 1981, Schnaider 1978, Skinner 1984, 1985, Zagulyaev 1989i.
Nomenclature according to Fauna Europaea.
Species in Belgium: 3.
WV = West-Vlaanderen LI = Limburg NA = Namur
OV = Oost-Vlaanderen BR = Brabant LG = Liège
AN = Antwerpen HA = Hainaut LX = Luxembourg
= before 1980 = 1980 – 2004 = after 2004
Species WV OV AN LI BR HA NA LG LX
Cossus cossus (Linnaeus, 1758)
= ligniperda (Fabricius, 1794)
Phragmataecia castaneae (Hübner, 1790)         L
Zeuzera pyrina (Linnaeus, 1761)
= aesculi (Linnaeus, 1767)
Comments to Willy De Prins or Chris Steeman
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