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Also Known As Insecta

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Anna Botsford Comstock.
Anna Botsford Comstock
American illustrator and writer
Sir Vincent Wigglesworth
British entomologist
Swammerdam, Jan
Jan Swammerdam
Dutch naturalist
Leland Ossian Howard
American entomologist
Bates, H.W.
H.W. Bates
British naturalist and explorer
William Morton Wheeler
American entomologist
Lyonnet, detail of an oil painting by Hendrik van Limborch, 1742; in a private collection
Pierre Lyonnet
Dutch naturalist and engraver
Charles Valentine Riley
American entomologist
Latreille, detail of an engraving after a portrait, 1823
Pierre-André Latreille
French zoologist
Say, Thomas
Thomas Say
American naturalist
Johann Christian Fabricius, engraving by G.L. Lahde, 1805
Johann Christian Fabricius
Danish entomologist
Fabre, Jean Henri
Jean Henri Fabre
French entomologist
John Henry Comstock
American entomologist
Charles De Geer
Swedish entomologist
Merian, Maria Sibylla
Maria Sibylla Merian
German-born naturalist and artist

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