Citizen science rediscovers rare South African moth

Mongabay
Feb 11, 2026, 8:00 am285 ptsTop
A strikingly handsome emerald-green moth, lost to science for nearly one-and-a-half centuries, has been rediscovered in South Africa by citizen scientists who posted photographs of it online. The moth, Drepanogynis insciata, whose body and wing margins look as though they’ve been stained with red wine, was…

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