Sloe emperor moth, Saturnia spini. Male, female, juvenile and adult larvae, pupa, chrysalis. Phalaena Attacus pavonia media. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Georg Klinger from Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper’s Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Erlangen, 1786.

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