Tarphius Nodosus
Thomas Vernon Wollaston published this drawing in his book ‘Insecta Maderensia’ in 1854. In the book he thanks Westwood for providing the illustrations, ‘Particularly, however, would I draw attention to the valuable help which I have received from J. O. Westwood, Esq., whose pencil has been so elaborately employed in the figures which I am thus enabled to attach, and by whom many of the minutest of the dissections were accomplished, — with a degree of delicacy, moreover, to which I did not myself at the commencement of this Work (though I have since succeeded in anatomizing the larger portion of them, likewise) lay claim.’
114. Tarphius nodosus, Woll. (Tab. III. fig. 6.). Wollaston wrote the following about this species:
‘After the T. Lauri and rotundatus, it is the most abundant and widely distributed member of the group. I have taken it, during the summer months, in the region of the Ribeiro Frio, the Cruzinhas, at the Lombo dos Pecegueiros, and the Fanal.’
114. Tarphius nodosus, Woll. (Tab. III. fig. 6.). Wollaston wrote the following about this species:
‘After the T. Lauri and rotundatus, it is the most abundant and widely distributed member of the group. I have taken it, during the summer months, in the region of the Ribeiro Frio, the Cruzinhas, at the Lombo dos Pecegueiros, and the Fanal.’
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 503/1911
- Collection Class
- Drawings
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Common Name
- Tarphius Nodosus
- Simple Name
- drawing
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Production Town
- Production Date
- 1852
- Production Person Initials
- John Obadiah
- Production Person Surname
- Westwood
- Production Year Low
- 1852
- Production Year High
- 1852
