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Hepialidae

The Hepialidae are distributed worldwide with about 500 species (Scoble 1992: 211).
Identification: de Freina & Witt 1990, Forster & Wohlfahrt 1960, Heath 1976, Hoffmeyer 1974, Koch 1964, Razowski 1975, Skinner 1984, Sukhareva 1989a, Toll 1959a.
Nomenclature according to Fauna Europaea.
Species in Belgium: 5.
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
Hepialus humuli (Linnaeus, 1758)
Korscheltellus lupulinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Pharmacis fusconebulosa (de Geer, 1778)                
Phymatopus hecta (Linnaeus, 1758)
Triodia sylvina (Linnaeus, 1761)
Comments to Willy De Prins or Chris Steeman
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