Giant sphinx, Cocytius antaeus (Jatropha sphinx, Sphinx jatrophae), caterpillar and pupa. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1804.


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