RMW7X3BJ–Merveille-du-Jour moth (Dichonia aprilina), camouflaged on lichen. The National Forest, Leicestershire, UK. September.
RMW02P1M–Merveille du jour, Dichonia aprilina 1-4, scarce merveille du jour, Moma alpium 5-7, and marbled green, Cryphia muralis 8. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper’s Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Erlangen, 1786.
RM2AN6J1A–The natural history of British insects; explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &ctogether with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microcsopeThe whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . crowded in a con-fufed feries, and forming an irregularly interrupted line. It may beeafily diftinguimed from Phalaena Aprilina by its fuperior fize, thecolours are lefs vivid, and it is deftitute of the broad tranfverfe bar,which is confpicuous on the upper wings of Phal
RM2BT4EB6–Merveille du jour, Dichonia aprilina 1-4, scarce merveille du jour, Moma alpium 5-7, and marbled green, Cryphia muralis 8. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann Christoph Espers Die Schmetterlinge in Abbildungen nach der Natur, Erlangen, 1786.
RMW7X3GC–Merveille-du-Jour moth (Dichonia aprilina) resting on a hand whilst a moth trap is emptied. The National Forest, Leicestershire, UK. September.
RMW7W5WM–Close up of wing of Merveille-du-Jour moth (Dichonia aprilina), with scales clearly visible. This species is well camouflaged against lichen. Leicestershire, UK. September.
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