Muslin moth, Diaphora mendica. Phalaena mendica, Phalaena pupillata. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock from Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper’s Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Erlangen, 1786.

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