Black arches or nun moth, Lymantria monacha 1-6, and owlet moth, Panthea coenobita 7. Phalaena monacha, Phalaena coenobita. 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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