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455:"The Hercules Moth: The Moth That Doesn't Eat"
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483:Coffs Harbour Butterfly House
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427:"Hercules, the moth of myth"
332:. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
352:. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
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254:Homalanthus populifolius
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479:"Coscinocera hercules"
348:Rainier Flindt. 2006.
248:Glochidion ferdinandi
242:Dysoxylum mollissimum
891:Coscinocera_hercules
862:Coscinocera hercules
373:"Saturniidae family"
209:William Henry Miskin
184:Coscinocera hercules
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36:Coscinocera hercules
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767:Additional articles
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507:Information
215:Description
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135:Coscinocera
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678:O. excavus
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