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Benjamin Wilkes

This page represents only a small part of our collection of original Antique prints of Butterflies & Insects. Please click on an image to see it in high-resolution, with details of the work itself.  For enquiries and purchases, please do contact us.

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Acrida Viridissima, Acrida verrucivora, Pterophylla ocellata.

Ruderal (1. Bombus Harrisellus), Northern European (2. Bombus Lapponicus), Knapweed caper (3. Bombus sylvarum) and European honeybee (4. Apis mellifica)

Ten varieties: Central orange species. Plate 18.

Sarpedon Butterfly: Chlorisses Sarpedon from Nepal.

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SOLD Scarabée hyllus. Chrysophore á grandes pattes.

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D’Urville’s Birdwing Butterfly: Ornithoptera urvilliana.

SOLD Tarantism, considered a form of possession from the spider’s bite, was believed to be cured with music and dancing.

Ctenophora flabellata Asilus crabroniformis, laphria gigas, mallephore infernnalis and Midas giganteus with segment details.

Large shaggy (1. Panurgus Banksianus), Long horned (2. Eucera longicornis), and Potter flower (3. Anthophora retusa).

Butterfly: Arpidea Chorinaea with Caterpillar and Chrysalis.

Privet Hawk Moth, phynx ligustrtri populi and a Privet branch, ligustrum vulgare.

Great Tortoise Shell Butterfly, papilia chloros and an Elm branch, ulmus campestris.

Greater Cockroach brought by Catesby from the Carolinas and a Cricket from Barbary.

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Cuckoo (1. Apathus rupestris) and (2. Apathus campestris), European (3. Bombus fragrans) and Broken-belted (4. Bombus Sorensis).