Species of scarab beetles. Bloody small dung beetle, Otophorus haemorrhoidalis 31, subterranean small dung beetle, Eupleurus subterraneus 33, Esymus merdarius 34, 35, 38, Onthophagus ovatus 36, erratic small dung beetle, Colobopterus erraticus 37, Diplognatha gagates 39, Odonteus armiger 40,41, Anomala dubia subsp. dubia 42, and garden chafer, Phyllopertha horticola 43. 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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