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English: Image of Scotorythra megalophylla (Kona Giant Looper Moth), a female. It was extracted from Plate V, volume I from the book Fauna Hawaiiensis (see original source). This species was endemic to Hawaii and is now extinct.
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Source Fauna Hawaiiensis or the Zoology of the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Isles: Being Results of the Explorations instituted by the Joint Committee appointed by the Royal Society of London for Promoting Natural Knowledge and the British Association for the Advancement of Science And carried on with the assistance of those Bodies and of the Trustees of The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum at Honolulu. Edited by David Sharp, M.B., M.A., F.R.S., Secretary of the Committee. Volume I, Part II, Maccrolepidoptera. By E. Meyrick, B.A. Cambridge: At the University Press. 1899. (http://nature.berkeley.edu/~magnacca/fauna/Fauna%20Hawaiiensis%201%202%20Macrolepidoptera.pdf)
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