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- ... that Prodromus Entomology was the first book about Australia containing plates engraved in Australia?
- ... that Archiinocellia is noted to be the only snakefly fossil genus from British Columbia and one of only two from Canada?
- ... that the extinct Neocorynura electra, found in Dominican amber, is the only known species of Neocorynura "sweat bee" from the Greater Antilles?
- ... that the oldest association between Trypanosoma, which causes Chagas disease, and its vector, the assassin bug Triatoma, is found in Triatoma dominicana and Trypanosoma antiquus?
- ... that at just over 18 millimetres (0.71 in), Fibla carpenteri is the largest species of snakefly known from amber?