Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19941

    Weevil larvae

    Date
    1768
    Creator
    Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt (1733 - 1796, German) , Engraver
    After
    Martin Frobene Ledermuller (1719 - 1769, German) , Naturalist
    Object type
    Library reference
    48660
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 245mm
    width (print): 195mm
    Subject
    Physics
       > Optics
          > Microscopy
    Biology
       > Natural history
    Description
    Study of weevil larvae, as viewed by microscope from above and below (fig. 2.), with details of its legs (fig. 4) and spiracles (fig 5), and it at natural size.

    Inscribed above: ‘TAB: XIX.’

    The accompanying text is headed: ‘Le charenson blanc’ [‘The white weevil’].

    Plate 19 from Amusement microscopique, tant pour l'esprit que pour les yeux, contenant... estampes... d'apres nature...by Martin Frobene Ledermuller, plates volume (Adam Wolfgang Winterschmidt, Nuremburg, 1768).

    Martin Frobene [Frobenius] Ledermuller (1719-1769) German naturalist was employed in various capacities as a notary, turning to microscope studies after an illness induced temporary deafness.
    Associated place
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