Peacock flower

Title
Peacock flower
Caption
Illustration of the peacock flower (Caesalpinia pulcherrima) and a moth—shown as larva, pupa, and in adult form—that is likely the tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta).
Creator
Maria Sibylla Merian
Containing Publication
Merian's Drawings of European Insects &c
Date Created
1701-1705
Rights
© The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence.
Filename
Panel_3_03_Histoire_générale_des_insectes_de_[...]Merian_Maria_bpt6k15191728_66.jpg
Case Number
03
Item Number
303