Horst Rötschke, born in 1936, lives in Spaichingen, situated on the foothills of the "Schwäbische Alb", a mountain ridge in the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg famous for its blooming meadows and diversity of butterflies. He is a piano master by profession but an even more ardent lepidopterologist and got the idea for this CD trying to picture all species of Noctuid moths in the region. Backed by the technical know-how of the Verlag für interaktive Medien (V.I.M.), he prepared the images of all specimens presented herein.

Ing. Kurt Huber, born in 1941 and living in Scharten (Upper Austria) is an engineer in construction business who has for many years maintained a deep interest in Palearctic Noctuid moths. His special field of interest is the Middle Asian butterflies, especially from the Kurdistan region of Turkey, where he described five moths taxa (Opigena huberi, Parnassius huberi, Xenophysa huberi, Isoceras huberi, Allancastria cerisyi huberi) as new for science and studied their biology by breeding and experimental hybridisation. He delivered major contributions to the respective monographs, i.e. the 'Butterflies of Turkey'. For this CD, he contributed many of the species identification images.

Axel Steiner, M.A., born 1960, is currently working at the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart (Germany, Baden-Wuerttemberg) in a lepidopterological project concerned with the documentation of type specimens and taxonomic data. Interested in noctuid moths since early youth he has written the largest part of the noctuid volumes in the book series "The Lepidoptera of Baden-Wuerttemberg" as well as other publications on noctuid faunistics and ecology. An ardent photographer he contributed all photographs of living specimens on this CD-ROM from his archive.
Contact: a-steiner@web.de