Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . quiterounded behind, but each isslightly scooped at the top,very much as if a piece hadbeen bitten out of them. It is to this circumstance that thespecies owes its name of prcemorsm, or <l bitten. There are very many species of Lycus, one of which, LycusScutellaria, has the elytra scarcely thicker than silver paper, andinstead of being scooped at the end, the tips are drawn out intoblack, flattened projections, very much like the wings of theSwallow-tailed Butterfly. Most of the speci
Insects abroad : being a popular account of foreign insects, their structure, habits, and transformations . quiterounded behind, but each isslightly scooped at the top,very much as if a piece hadbeen bitten out of them. It is to this circumstance that thespecies owes its name of prcemorsm, or <l bitten. There are very many species of Lycus, one of which, LycusScutellaria, has the elytra scarcely thicker than silver paper, andinstead of being scooped at the end, the tips are drawn out intoblack, flattened projections, very much like the wings of theSwallow-tailed Butterfly. Most of the species show scarcely anydifference of shape in the two sexes, but some of them, such asLycus Bremii, a native of Southern Africa, are extremely different,the male having the elytra wide and flat, while those of thefemale are not only narrow, but even scooped at the sides. Nearly all the Lycidae are foreign insects, but we have twoBritish species, both belonging to the genus Dictyopterus. Thebest known of them is Dictyopterus Aurora, which is found inRannoch Wood, Perthshire. It is almost always taken under. Fig. 76.—Lycus pneinovsus. (Orange and black.) 168 INSECTS ABROAD. felled timber, and, being very slow in its movements, is easilycaptured. The colour of its elytra is red, and the length of theBeetle is barely half an inch. The generic name, Dictyopterus, isformed from two Greek words signifying net-winged, and isgiven to the insect on account of the network-like texture of theelytra, which has already been mentioned in connexion withLycus prccmorsus.
Size: 1894px × 1319px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectinsects, bookyear1883
