Citron with a Monkey Slug Moth and a Harlequin Beetle, Maria Sibylla Merian (1703)
A watercolour of a branch of a citron tree (Citrus medica) with the life cycle of a monkey slug moth (Phobetron hipparchia) and a harlequin beetle (Acrocinus longimanus). This is a version of plate 28 in Merian's Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium.
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