In a study of 59 regionally extinct lepidoptera (butterfly and moth) species in central Europe, eight extinctions were associated with the loss of particular host plant species, which occurred after the lepidoptera had already gone extinct.

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  Compendium Vol. 5 No. 1: The ecological role of native plants

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• Europe location
• extinction concept