Urania sloanus

Urania sloanus, known in English as Sloane's urania, was a moth of the family Uraniidae that lived only on the island of Jamaica and is now extinct. The last confirmed reports of living moths date from 1894 or 1895, although some evidence suggests that the species may have survived until at least 1908. It was first described by the Dutch naturalist Pieter Cramer in 1779, originally under the name Papilio sloanus, and was later moved through several other genus names before settling in Urania. The specific epithet sloanus honours Sir Hans Sloane, the English collector whose collections became the foundation of the British Museum. A hand coloured illustration of the moth by William Swainson was published in 1829, and it remains one of the best known images of this vanished Caribbean insect.