"A species having a proboscis two or three inches longer could reach the nectar in the largest flowers of Angræcum sesquipedale, whose nectaries vary in length from ten to fourteen inches. That such a moth exists in Madagascar may be safely predicted; and naturalists who visit that island should search for it with as much confidence as astronomers searched for the planet Neptune - and they will be equally successful!"
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Alfred Russel Wallace in: Journal of Science, and Annals of Astronomy, Biology, Geology ..., Volume 4, John Churchill and Sons, 1867, p. 477
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