At first sight, an objective picture of a beetle with a neutral scientific description, until you take a closer look at the label and see where it was found. French Equatorial Africa was a French colony from 1910 to 1960. Linking place names to items often indicates a particular time period with a particular worldview, in this case Eurocentric and colonial.
Source: Anonymous, date unknown, AMAURODES PASSERINI, Westw. French Equatorial Africa, De Wereld van Kina, Copyright protection not determined