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Description: | The Deaths Head hawkmoth is a rare summer visitor to Britain from mainland Europe. This, the largest European hawkmoth species, has always been regarded as a harbinger of death and doom - its Latin name, Acheronita atropos, is taken from roman mythology. Acheron was the river of sorrows that flowed through the underworld and Atropos was the oldest of the 3 fates, whose job was to sever the threads of life. | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.invertebratezoology.20042 | Go to resource |
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