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| Mauritius Snout
Butterfly-Mauritius (Libythea cinyras) |
| syn. - |
| distribution: Mauritius |
| local name: - |
| size: (?) extinction date: (?) |
| As far as I know this species is known on the base of only one specimen, the holotypus. This is in a very deplorable condition, so it lacks almost all parts of its body (shown in the picture below by contours) as well as large parts of its wings. |
 left:Mauritius Snout Butterfly-Mauritius (Libythea cinyras) Depiction from 'Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. London, The Society. 1907' (flipped horizontal) http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org |
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