Moths (Lepidoptera-Heterocera, Plate 42) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 east africa Anna Salai (Mount Road)

Anna Salai (Mount Road)

Created at a time when taxonomy and field observation were accelerating

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Depictions of animals and plants relevant to specific regions

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Moths (Lepidoptera-Heterocera, Plate 42) by Frederick DuCane Godman, 1879 east africa Anna Salai (Mount Road)Frederick DuCane Godmans Insecta Lepidoptera Heterocera Pl. 041 (1879) is a quintessential Victorian zoological illustration, created at a moment when exquisitely detailed plates were the backbone of scientific communication. An English naturalist born in 1834, Godman worked at the confluence of exploration and scholarship, documenting the remarkable diversity of Lepidoptera before photography could serve researchers at scale. This plate captures