Brimstone moth
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The brimstone moth is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It should not be confused with the brimstone butte
Opisthograptis luteolata 01
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Caterpillar
Pupating
The Colours of Animals
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The Colours of Animals is a zoology book written in 1890 by Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton. It was the first substantial textbook to argue the case for Darwinian selection applying to all aspects of anima
Brimstone moth
…The brimstone is found throughout the Palearctic region and Western Asia. The English zoologist Edward Bagnall Poulton, author of The Colours of Animals (1890) described countershading in insects including the caterpillar larvae of the brimstone moth. The American artist Abbott Handerson Thayer, generally…
Cover of first edition
Title page of first edition of The Colours of Animals, 1890
Warning coloration of the "Brazilian Skunk" in The Colours of Animals
Frontispiece: Mimicry in South African Butterflies, the only chromolithograph in the book