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Meet the Beetles

At every stop on the voyage, Darwin collected beetles. These samples from his personal collection include insects from all over the world.

Beetles
Collected by Charles Darwin
Specimen numbers: 1–20

• Oxycara cribratum
  Cape Verde Islands—1832
• Longitarsus sp.
  Bahia, Brazil—1832
• Canthidium trinodosum
  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil—1832
• Prox pilularius
  off Montevideo, Uruguay—1832
• Neobrachypterus darwini
  Bahia Blanca, Argentina—1832
• Nyctelia rugosa
  Bahia Blanca, Argentina—1832
• Brachinus platensis
  Maldonado, Uruguay—1833
• Chanopterus brevipennis
  Tierra del Fuego—1833
• Nyctelia fitzroyi
  Port Desire, Argentina—1834
• Lathrididae
  Concepción, Chile—1835
• Oedionychus fairmairei
  Valparaíso, Chile—1835
• Parahelops darwini
  Valparaíso, Chile—1835
• Scymnus galapagoensis
  Charles I, Galápagos Islands—1835
• Oemona humilis
  Bay of Islands, New Zealand—1835
• Allelidea ctenostomoides
  Sydney, Australia—1836
• Anthicus strictus
  Hobart, Tasmania—1836
• Phalacrus corruscans
  King George's Sound, Australia—1836
• Meligethes splendidulus
  Cape of Good Hope, South Africa—1836
• Oxytelus alutaceifrons
  St. Helena, Mid-Atlantic—1836

Butterfly
Collected by Charles Darwin

• Tatochila theodice gymnodice
  Tierra del Fuego, Port Famine—1834

Moths
Collected by Charles Darwin
Specimen numbers: 22–25

• Arctiidae
  South America—1834
• Arctiidae South America—1834
• Utetheisa pulchelloides darwini Keeling Islands—1836
• Utetheisa pulchelloides darwini Keeling Islands—1836

Flies
Collected by Charles Darwin
Specimen numbers: 26–30

• Chloropidae
  Chiloé, Chile—1834
• Paractora trichosterna
  Falkland Islands—1834
• Prosopantium aequiseta
  Falkland Islands—1834
• Anisopodidae
  Tierra del Fuego, Port Famine—1834
• Hippoboscidae
  St. Paul Rocks, Brazil—1832

Bugs
Collected by Charles Darwin
Specimen numbers: 31–33

• Kaapia darwini
  Cape of Good Hope, South Africa—1834
• Caffrolix cyclopia
  Cape of Good Hope, South Africa—1834
• Cephalelus sp.
  King George's Sound, Australia—1834