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Brevivulva electroma (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae)
... that the extinct
Eocene
parasitic wasp
Brevivulva electroma
(pictured)
was named from the Greek words meaning "short amber wrapper"?
... that in the burrowing
wolf spider
Allocosa brasiliensis
, males often eat older, less
fecund
females that they lured into their burrow using
pheromones
, while preferring to mate with virgins?
... that the extinct
parasitic wasp
genus
Aspidopleura
is known from only two
fossils
found in
Baltic amber
?
... that only one side of the
extinct
parasitic wasp
Neanaperiallus
is visible in its sole
fossilized
specimen?
... that the
queen ant
of the
Acropyga acutiventris
carries a
mealybug
Xenococcus annandalei
in her
jaws
on her
nuptial flight
?
... that a species of
crab
,
Tumidotheres maculatus
, has been found living on an
asteroid
?