Giant sphinx moth, Cocytius antaeus (Annona sphinx, Sphinx annonae).

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Giant sphinx moth, Cocytius antaeus (Annona sphinx, Sphinx annonae). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1802.

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