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Pycanum rubens (Insecta: Hemiptera: Tessaratomidae)
... that some species of
giant stink bugs
(pictured)
are edible?
... that the
extinct
giant
ant
genus
Formicium
is known only from
forewings
found in
Dorset
and
Tennessee
?
... that a
new species
of
decim periodical cicada
was discovered by studying the songs of
Brood XIX
, now re-emerging in 2011 after 13 years underground?
... that the Australian jumping spider
Portia fimbriata
plays a deadly game of hide-and-seek with its favourite prey,
Jacksonoides queenlandicus
, another
jumping spider
?
... that the
fossil
sawfly
species
Eriocampa tulameenensis
was found along the
Canadian Pacific rail line
near
Princeton, British Columbia
?
... that
Aenigmastacus
, a fossil
crayfish
from Canada, belongs to
a family
only otherwise known from the Southern Hemisphere?