Scarab beetle, Polyphylla (Polyphylla) fullo 1,2, minotaur beetle, Typhaeus typhoeus 3,4, mottled dung beetle, Onthophagus nuchicornis 5,6, Omaloplia ruricola 7 and vine chafer, Anomala vitis 8. 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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