Old house borer, Hylotrupes bajulus 1,2,3,5, tanner beetle, Prionus coriarius 4, longhorn beetle, Leiopus nebulosus 6, musk beetle, Aromia moschata 7, small poplar borer, Saperda populnea 8, and greater thorn-tipped longhorn, Pogonocherus hispidulus 9. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Thomas Martyn’s The English Entomologist, Exhibiting all the Coleopterous Insects found in England, Academy for Illustrating and Painting Natural History, London, 1792.

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