Natural educational image, for an interior with a unique naturalistic look - Chinese tiger beetle by Charles d'Orbigny

Reproduction engraving of: Chinese Tiger Beetle (Cicindela chinensis, Fabr.), Head of the Country Tiger Beetle (Cicindela campestris), Large-jawed Manticore (Manticora maxillosa, Fabr.), Flightless Tricondyle (Tricondylaaptera, Olivier), Latreille's Agra (Agra Latreillei, Dupont), Melanura Odacanth (Odacantha melanura, Fabr.)

Illustration taken from the Universal Dictionary of Natural History, written under the direction of Charles Henry Dessalines d'Orbigny (1806-1876) and published from 1841 to 1849.

This work, considered one of the major achievements of the 19th century in terms of scientific synthesis and quality popularization, wonderfully illustrating the great beauty and impressive diversity of the biological world, was supplemented by a certain amount of scientific information, some extracts of which are reproduced below.

Important note: the scientific classification elements of the time have been preserved as they are and may of course be obsolete today.

Scientific classification and description of the species present in the engraving:

Class of Insects
Order of Coleoptera
Suborder Carabids
Family of Cicindelidae
Fig. 1. Natural-size Chinese tiger beetle (Cicindela chinensis, Fabr.).
1. a. Head of the Tiger Beetle (Cicindela campestris), showing the position of the eyes, and in front the upper lip and mandibles.
• b. Lower lip of the same, provided with its palps.
• c. Jaw equipped with palps.
• d. An isolated tarsus.
Fig. 3. Large-jawed manticore (Manticora maxillosa, Fabr.) Natural size.
Fig. 5. Wingless tricondyle (Tricondyla aptera, Olivier) Natural size.

Class of Insects
Order of Coleoptera
Suborder Carabids
Carabid family
Fig. 4. Latreille's Agre (Agra Latreillei, Dupont) Slightly enlarged.
Fig. 2. Odacanthus melanura (Odacantha melanura, Fabr.) Grossi.
Fig. 6. Girdled Brachin (Brachinus succinctus, Dej.) Natural size.
Fig. 7. Twelve-spotted Anthia (Anthia duodecim guttata, Bonelli) Natural size.
7. a. End of the leg.
• b. Lower lip and jaw.
Fig. 9. Lower lip and jaw of the Multispotted Graphipterus (Graphipterus multiguttatus)
Fig. 8. Tawny corselet lebie (Lebia fulvicollis, Fabr.) Natural size.