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BackgroundHerbivorous insects represent a major fraction of global biodiversity and the relationships they have established with their food plants range from strict specialists to broad generalists. Our knowledge of these relationships is of primary importance to basic (e.g. the study of insect ecology and evolution) and applied biology (e.g. monitoring of pest or invasive species) and yet remains very fragmentary and understudied. In   Lepidoptera  , caterpillars of families   Saturniidae   and   Sphingidae   are rather well known and considered to have adopted contrasting preferences in their use of food plants. The former are regarded as being rather generalist feeders, whereas the latter are more specialist.New informationTo assemble and synthesise the vast amount of existing data on food plants of   Lepidoptera   families   Saturniidae   and   Sphingidae  , we combined three major existing databases to produce a dataset collating more than 26,000 records for 1256 species (25% of all species) in 121 (67%) and 167 (81%) genera of   Saturniidae   and   Sphingidae  , respectively. This dataset is used here to document the level of polyphagy of each of these genera using summary statistics, as well as the calculation of a polyphagy score derived from the analysis of Phylogenetic Diversity of the food plants used by the species in each genus.

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A global food plant dataset for wild silkmoths and hawkmoths and its use in documenting polyphagy of their caterpillars (  Lepidoptera  :   Bombycoidea  :   Saturniidae  ,   Sphingidae  )