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Microlepidoptera of Europe, Volume 10: Depressariidae provides descriptions and illustrations which will enable the identification of all 192 species. For its preparation, more than 10,000 specimens have been studied, including East Palearctic species. Genetic barcodes were taken from nearly 3,000 specimens. As a result, 28 species were described as new to science, 22 of these present in Europe. For the first time in a guide to species identification in a family of European Microlepidoptera traditional taxonomy based on morphology is backed up by molecular evidence. The last revision of the family which covered all of Europe was published in 1910.
Peter Buchner is a high school teacher of biology and sports, and Associated Scientist of NHMW. Privately, his biological focus on botany, ornithology, and entomology, with a special focus on Depressariidae since 2011. He has been working on various monitoring projects in Lower Austrian protected areas.
Martin Corley has a BA in botany from Oxford University. He is a farmer in Oxfordshire and an amateur lepidopterist with a special interest in Portuguese Lepidoptera on which he has published many papers including a checklist Lepidoptera of Continental Portugal (2015).
