The small white moth, Topiris candidella, was described in 1863 by Francis Walker but was dismissed in 1927 by leading ...

This was at the same time as he was formulating his own revolutionary ideas on the origins of species which he would go on to share with Charles Darwin. The small white moth, Topiris candidella, was ...

Consisting of just a thorax and a couple of wings, you’d be forgiven for thinking that a 1.2-centimetre-long off-white moth in the depths of the Natural History Museum’s collections is past its prime.