Epatolmis caesarea and Penthophera morio moths. Phalaena luctifera, Phalaena morio. 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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