Plate K of Arthropedia: An Illustrated Alphabet of Invertebrates features 82 individual insects of 62 different species, from beetles and bugs to bees, wasps and butterflies with all sorts in between – sawflies, grasshoppers and crickets, micro and macro moths, and flies.
What’s on Kaleidoscope?
Use the numbered picture and list of species below to find out exactly what’s on the plate.
| Insect Type | Name |
| Bug | 1. Corizus hyoscyami (x4) |
| Beetle | 2. Cryptocephalus sp (x2) |
| Moth | 3. Anania funebris (x2) |
| Butterfly | 4. Chequered Skipper Carterocephalus palaemon (x2) |
| Beetle | 5. Two-banded Longhorn Beetle Rhagium bifasciatum (x4) |
| Fly | 6. Banded General Stratiomys potamida (x4) |
| Bug | 7. Crucifer Shieldbug Eurydema oleracea (x1) |
| Bug | 8. Knobbed Shieldbug Podops inuncta (x1) |
| Bug | 9. Leptopterna dolabrata (x4) |
| Beetle | 10. Copper Peacock Elaphrus cupreus (x1) |
| Beetle | 11. Badister bullatus (x1) |
| Beetle | 12. Cramp-ball Fungus Weevil Platyrhinus resinosus (x1) |
| Beetle | 13. Skullcap Leaf Beetle Phyllobrotica quadrimaculata (x1) |
| Bug | 14. Pantilius tunicatus (x2) |
| Dragonfly | 15. Four-spot Chaser (form praenubila) Libellula quadrimaculata form praenubila(x1) |
| Dragonfly | 16. Four-spot Chaser Libellula quadrimaculata (x1) |
| Grasshopper | 17. Common Green Grasshopper Omocestus viridulus (x1) |
| Grasshopper | 18. Mottled Grasshopper Myrmeleotettix maculatus (x1) |
| Bush-cricket | 19. Bog Bush-cricket Metrioptera brachyptera (x1) |
| Bush-cricket | 20. Roesel’s Bush-cricket Metrioptera roeselii (x1) |
| Butterfly | 21. Glanville Fritillary Melitaea cinxia (x1) |
| Butterfly | 22. Scotch Argus Erebia aethiops (x1) |
| Butterfly | 23. Wall Brown Lasiommata megera (x1) |
| Butterfly | 24. Marsh Fritillary Euphydryas aurinia (x1) |
| Butterfly | 25. Silver-studded Blue Plebejus argus (x1) |
| Hoverfly | 26. Dasysyrphus albostriatus (x1) |
| Butterfly | 27. Green Hairstreak Callophrys rubi (x1) |
| Butterfly | 28. Holly Blue Celastrina argiolus (x1) |
| Hoverfly | 29. Sericomyia lappona (x1) |
| Butterfly | 30. White-letter Hairstreak Satyrium w-album (x1) |
| Beetle | 31. Sphaeridium scarabaeoides (x1) |
| Beetle | 32. Aphodius obliteratus (x1) |
| Beetle | 33. Eyed Ladybird Anatis ocellata (x1) |
| Beetle | 34. Water Ladybird Anisosticta novemdecimpunctata (x1) |
| Beetle | 35. 16-spot Ladybird Tytthaspis sedecimpunctata (x1) |
| Beetle | 36. 24-spot Ladybird Subcoccinella vigintiquattuorpunctata (x1) |
| Beetle | 37. Onthophagus similis (x1) |
| Beetle | 38. Aphodius fimetarius (x1) |
| Moth | 39. Olethreutes arcuella (x1) |
| Sawfly | 40. Figwort Sawfly Tenthredo scrophulariae (x1) |
| Moth | 41.Nemophora fasciella (x1) |
| Bug | 42. Rhombic Leatherbug Syromastus rhombeus (x1) |
| Bug | 43. Grypocoris stysi (x1) |
| Fly | 44. Dune Villa Villa modesta (x1) |
| Bug | 45. Harpocera thoracica (x1) |
| Bug | 46. Fallen’s Leatherbug Arenocoris falleni (x1) |
| Moth | 47. Merveille du Jour Griposia aprilina (x1) |
| Wasp | 48. Diphyus quadripunctorius (x1) |
| Moth | 49. Angle Shades Phlogophora meticulosa (x1) |
| Moth | 50. Marbled Beauty Bryophila domestica (x1) |
| Wasp | 51. Ichneumon stramentor (x1) |
| Moth | 52. Peach Blossom Thyatira batis (x1) |
| Bug | 53. Denticulate Leatherbug Coriomeris denticulatus (x1) |
| Bug | 54. Calocoris roseomaculatus (x1) |
| Fly | 55. Phasia hemiptera (x1) |
| Bug | 56. Rhabdomiris striatellus (x1) |
| Bug | 57. Dock Bug Coreus marginatus (x1) |
| Moth | 58. Esperia sulphurella (x1) |
| Sawfly | 59. Alder Sawfly Eriocampa ovata (x1) |
| Moth | 60. Agapeta zoegana (x1) |
| Beetle | 61. Sulphur Beetle Cteniopus sulphureus (x4) |
| Bee | 62. Silvery Leafcutter Bee Megachile leachella (x1) |
| Bee | 63. Coelioxys conoidea (x1) |
