Flower chafer
This specimen was collected by G. Lewis in 1910 in Sri Lanka. The beautiful blue of this beetle are not produced by pigments, they are generated by the way light is reflected inside the beetle’s exoskeleton.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 515/1912
- Category
- Natural History
- Collection Class
- Arthropods
- Collection Area Region
- South Asia
- Collector Excavator
- British Museum Natural History (from the collection of): Lewis, G
- Common Name
- flower chafer
- Simple Name
- insect: beetle
- Period Classification
- Edwardian (1901-1914)
![SCARABAEIDAE: Heterorrhina elegans [?]var. cyanoptera Westwood, 1842:](https://cdn3.swcollectionsexplorer.org.uk/sizer/webroot/imgp.php?src=ramm/images/515-1912.jpg&width=400)
