Portal:Arthropods/Did you know/22
Appearance
- ... 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?