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Glomeris marginata (Myriapoda: Diplopoda: Glomeridae)
... that
Glomeris marginata
(pictured)
, a
pill millipede
, is often confused with the
woodlouse
Armadillidium
, because they both roll themselves up into a ball when disturbed?
... that
Mimoides phaon
was the first
swallowtail butterfly
of the genus
Mimoides
to stray into the
United States
?
... that the meat of the
slipper lobster
Ibacus peronii
is considered inferior to that of the
Moreton Bay bug
because it sometimes tastes of
garlic
?
... that when analyzing
relationships of the harvestmen
it is found that they are not true
spiders
, as often believed, but are in fact
more closely related
to
scorpions
?
... that the "orchid dupe wasp",
Lissopimpla excelsa
, ejaculates visible amounts of semen as it tries to copulate with flowers of the
leafless
,
large
and
tartan
tongue orchids
, which it mistakes for a female wasp?
... that
Tanymastix stagnalis
is the only species of
fairy shrimp
to occur in
Ireland
?