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Labia minor (Insecta: Dermaptera: Labiidae)
... that a typical
Labia minor
(pictured)
is chocolate brown, up to 7 mm long, and is equipped with pincers?
... that the
extinct
parasitic wasp
Metapelma archetypon
is thought to have preyed upon wood-boring beetles?
... that the possibly
extinct
wall crab spider
species
Garcorops jadis
was named for
C. S. Lewis
'
Jadis, the White Witch
?
... that the extinct
trilobite
Bumastus
was named after its resemblance to large
grapes
?
... that the
larva
of the Texas
beetle
,
Brachypsectra fulva
, can live for over two years without feeding?
... that the extinct
mason bee
species
Anthidium exhumatum
and
Anthidium scudderi
are known from the
Eocene
Florissant Formation
in
Colorado
?