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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.

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

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

Butterfly: Arpidea Chorinaea with Caterpillar and Chrysalis.

Damselflies: Scarce blue tail Ischnura pumilio and and common blue tail Ischnura elegans

Dragonflies: Mooland Hawker dragonfly Aeschna juncea. Male and female.

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

Acrida Viridissima, Acrida verrucivora, Pterophylla ocellata.

Dragonflies: Brilliant Emerald Somatochlora metallica and Northern Emerald Somatochlora arctica.

Emmerald Hair-streak Butterfly: Male and female. Arcas imperialis from Brazil.

Brazilian Swallow-tail Butterfly with caterpillar: Protesilaus Leilus.

Orange Colias Butterfly: Two views each of the male and female. Colias argante from Para.

Ten varieties: Central orange species. Plate 18.

Cramer’s Rhetus: Two views. Rhetus Cramerii from Bahia.

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

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

Oriental Emerald Butterfly: Leilus Orientalis from Bengal.