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BioAcoustica is a free, open repository of wildlife sound recordings from the Natural History Museum, London.

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Lepidoptera

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Contains

Crambidae3
Erebidae0
Noctuidae2
Nolidae0
Nymphalidae0
Pyralidae0
Saturniidae0
Sphingidae3
Yponomeutidae0

Recordings

593:9 Acherontis styx (822r9)1:13 · E. Sismondo
Acherontia atropos, nr Rome0:26 · Alberto Zilli
Amyna natalis A0:10
Amyna natalis B0:45
Symmoracma minoralis M050:34
Symmoracma minoralis M070:43
Symmoracma minoralis M100:16
Amorpha juglandis caterpillar

Specimens

Amyna natalis BioAcoustica Heller and Achmann 11992-03-01 · Klaus-Gerhard Heller; Roland Achmann
Symmoracma minoralis BioAcoustica Heller and Krahe 11992-03-01 · Klaus-Gerhard Heller; Rüdiger Krahe

Literature

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