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I do the same with the desiccated corpses of the cockchafer, the Capricorn, or Cerambyx beetle, and the Cetonia, or rosechafer.
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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Now and then the "sagueir" makers brought me a fine rosechafer (Sternoplus schaumii) which they found licking up the sweet sap.
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 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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On the myrtle-like flowers of some of the shrubs, large green cockchafers were to be found during the dry season, and a bright green rosechafer was also common.
The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855
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a fine rosechafer (Sternoplus schaumii) which they found licking up the sweet sap.
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