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Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce the catch of the day: "Noctuidae Europaeae, Vol 5, Hadeninae II", brought to us by László Ronkay, José Luis Yela and Marton Hreblay in cooperation with Matti Ahola.

Apparently, lepidopterists are in some kind of crisis. The Hampsonian concept of the trifine and quadrifine subfamilies have been generally shaken with new phylogenetic concepts and suprageneric classifications published, to no avail. Don't ask me what this means, but it seems to be the entomological equivalent of the fiscal cap. There goes our grant money!

Not to worry, the editors of "Noctuidae Europaeae" are up to the task, bankrolled (as usual) by the Carlsberg Foundation (yes, the guys with the Danish beer). In this volume, our valiant knights save the day by introducing a monophyletic rather than subfamilial structure. They also sternly declare that infrasubspecific names are biologically meaningless.

Somehow, I suspected that all along.

Otherwise, everything is pretty much the same. Interested readers might want to read my review of Vol. 4 of this series for the full story...