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A detailed dark brown engraving of a New Zealand cave weta, a large flightless cricket-like insect, in side profile with long antennae and spiny legs.

Fine naturalist engraving style, like a 19th-century entomological field-guide plate. Monochrome dark brown-black ink linework on a plain white background. Precise anatomical detail with hairline crosshatching for shading, no color, no gradients, no background elements, no text or labels, side-profile view, single centered subject, high detail. Weta (the headline species — Pharmacus brewsterensis, a cave weta): "A New Zealand cave weta — a large flightless cricket-like insect, humped arched back, very long thin antennae longer than its body, long spiny hind legs adapted for jumping, no wings." Generate the image with a plain white background. With a couple of variations per species, so that I the cleanest, most "linework" like illustration. And generate them all in the same overall style. This is going into a National Geographic level book about impact of climate change. See more

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