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English: Donovan, Edward (1792) The natural history of British insects: explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &c. together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope: the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens, London, p. 79 :

"Posterior pair red, with three black bars across. Abdomen red, with black belts.

[...]

The larva of this beautiful species is found very frequently on the Privet in months of July and August. It buries itself in the earth preparatory to its becoming a pupa, and comes forth in the fly in June following."
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Donovan, Edward

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