Tawny rajah butterfly, Charaxes bernardus.
Tawny rajah butterfly, Charaxes bernardus (Papilio bernardus) on a camellia, Camellia japonica. Taken from Edward Donovan's An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of China, 1798. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.
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Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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