Pictured: The uniform-point ruler moth that returned to China after 150 years. Courtesy of Shanghai Science and Technology Museum
This is a legendary moth. A century and a half ago, in present-day Sichuan, it was collected and specimend by a French priest named Armand Davide, and then traveled around the world, eventually in the collection of the Rijksmuseum de Nature in Paris, France, for 150 years. Today (March 30), the moth "flew" back to the motherland, and this precious insect specimen was accepted by the Shanghai Museum of Natural History.
In 1871, french priest Armand Davide collected this moth called the uniform point ruler moth in Sichuan, and then transported it to Paris, France, by sea ship, and after being made into a specimen, it has been preserved at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France, which has a history of nearly 150 years.
The specimen-making priest Armand Davide, a French Basque, is a zoologist and botanist who is famous for describing and publishing the species of the giant panda Ailuropodamelanoleuca (David, 1869) in 1869.
At present, the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France, is cooperating with the Shanghai Museum of Natural History to study lepidoptera insects. French collaborator Professor Claude Tautel discovered the story behind the moth specimen and donated it to the Shanghai Museum of Natural History through the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France.
Today, the moth has crossed half the globe, traveled a century and a half, and is back again. (Xinmin Evening News Xinmin Network Xiao Junwei)