Click beetle: Headlight elater, Pyrophorus noctilucus 1, Chalcolepidius porcatus 2, lined click beetle, Agriotes lineatus 3, Elater suturalis 4, and Semiotus distinctus 5. 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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