Click beetles: Melanoxanthus melanocephalus 1, Luciola italica 2, Lampyris latreillii 3, Lycus festivus 4, soft-wing flower beetle, Clanoptilus marginellus 5, and Priocera variergata 6. Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars from James Duncan’s Natural History of Beetles, in Sir William Jardine’s Naturalist’s Library, , Lizars, Edinburgh, 1835. James Duncan was a Scottish zoologist and entomologist 1804-1861.

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