longicorn

Invertebrates, especially insects, are quite diverse, and, in the uplands of the Caucasus, one can observe many examples of the varied insect life, including an endemic butterfly (Parnassius nordmanni) and the Rosalia longicorn beetle (Rosalia alpine, VU).

Biological diversity in the Caucasus 2008

The rain has washed the ground away from under its off legs, so that it tilts; and there were quantities of large longicorn beetles about during the night — the sort with spiny backs; they kept on getting themselves hitched on to my blankets and when I wanted civilly to remove them they made a horrid fizzing noise and showed fight — cocking their horns in a defiant way.

Travels in West Africa 2003

What formerly would have been a repulsive object (such as a great longicorn or beetle) is worn with ease by the belles of our time.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 Various

If I had stopped to guess I would probably have considered the author a longicorn beetle or some fiddling orthopter.

Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

Coccinella (lady-bird), which swarms at Dorjiling, does not ascend so high, and a Clytus was the only longicorn.

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

The curious and very rare little longicorn, Tethlimmena aliena, quite unlike its nearest allies in the same country, is an exact copy on a somewhat smaller scale of a malacoderm, Lygistopterus amabilis, both found at Chontales.

Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

The rain has washed the ground away from under its off legs, so that it tilts; and there were quantities of large longicorn beetles about during the night -- the sort with spiny backs; they kept on getting themselves hitched on to my blankets and when I wanted civilly to remove them they made a horrid fizzing noise and showed fight -- cocking their horns in a defiant way.

Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881

"A splendid longicorn," he said, fishing a pill-box from his pocket, and carefully imprisoning his captive.

Middy and Ensign George Manville Fenn 1870

The beetles furnish us with many species of large size, and of the most brilliant metallic lustre, among which the Tmesisternus mirabilis, a longicorn beetle of a golden green colour; the excessively brilliant rose-chafers, Lomaptera wallacei and Anacamptorhina fulgida; one of the handsomest of the Buprestidae,

The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

Many other species of Callia also resemble other malacoderms; and the longicorn genus Lycidola has been named from its resemblance to various species of the Lycidae, one of the species here figured (Lycidola belti) being a good mimic of Calopteron corrugatum and of several other allied species, all being of about the same size and found at Chontales.

Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868