Emperor moth, Saturnia pavonia, larva, pupa, chrysalis. Pavonia major. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Georg Klinger from Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper’s Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Erlangen, 1786.

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