User:Umimmak/DYK

DYK facts from articles I "created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status" (confirm). Hooks without the icon were nominated by someone else.

2017

[13 October 2017] ... that the butterfly Calycopis pisis has a junior synonym named after American cartoonist Gary Larson?

[16 October 2017] ... that although Pausanias described Spintharus of Corinth as the architect of the Temple at Delphi, subsequent historians have disagreed as to which temple he built?

[22 October 2017] ... that Rhipicephalus pulchellus (pictured) is sometimes known by its common name "the zebra tick", both because zebras are one of its main hosts and because of the males' black and white ornamentation?

[25 October 2017] ... that although the gall midge Schizomyia viticola can produce up to 135 galls (pictured) on a single grape vine leaf, the plant is not harmed?

• [30 October 2017] ... that the Ethiopian hare is endemic to Africa, and is found in the Afromontane Biozone of Ethiopia and the borders of the Sudanian Savanna Biozone?

[7 November 2017] ... that Homer Franklin Bassett, a librarian in Waterbury, Connecticut, described 125 new species of gall wasp?

[18 November 2017] ... that the California condor louse became extinct when all remaining California condors were deloused in a captive breeding program?

[19 November 2017] ... that bird lice in the genus Colpocephalum are "rapid", allowing them to outrun the preening of their host?

[21 November 2017] ... that kiwi birds are parasitized by lice in the genus Apterygon and in the subgenus Rallicola (Aptericola)?

[23 November 2017] ... that the gall wasp Bassettia pallida induces oak trees to form galls, but has its own behavior altered by a chalcid wasp?

[8 December 2017] ... that the rhinoceros beetle genus Cyclocephala already had over 200 species when C. nodanotherwon ("not another one") was described in 1992?

[12 December 2017] ... that This is found in southern Australia, is attracted to decomposing seaweed, and has an unusual mating position?

[14 December 2017] ... that Methylophaga muralis, a species of bacteria, was first discovered on marble in the Moscow Kremlin?

[23 December 2017] ... that Megachile chomskyi (pictured), a species of bee named after the linguist Noam Chomsky, has a tongue that is more than half the length of its body?

[25 December 2017] ... that you won't find any Ba humbugi on Christmas Island?

[27 December 2017] ... that an entomologist cried "Aha!" when he discovered a new genus of Australian wasp, and that became its name?

2018

[1 January 2018] ... that an illustration (pictured) of the Cartwrightia scarab Cartwrightia cartwrighti was printed on the invitations for entomologist Oscar Ling Cartwright's retirement party?

[5 January 2018] ... that arachnologists think juvenile Chanbria camel spiders locate their prey through a combination of smelling and feeling for them?

[7 January 2018] ... that when the wasp Idiogramma elbakyanae was named in honor of Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan, she took this as an insult?

[30 January 2018] ... that the elm seed bug produces an unpleasant smell reminiscent of bitter almonds?

[1 March 2018] ... that the Oriental Basin pocket gopher was designated a species in 1895, demoted to a subspecies of Merriam's pocket gopher in 1968, then restored to species status in 2005?

[16 March 2018] ... that the spider genus Seycellesa and the nematode genus Traklosia were both originally named Robertia, but had to be renamed?

[23 March 2018] ... that the land snail genus Vatusila was named after a Fijian tribe known for killing and eating the missionary Thomas Baker in 1867?

[16 April 2018] ... that Macrobiotus shonaicus, a Japanese water bear, was first found in the parking lot of the apartment building where one of the researchers lived?

[22 April 2018] ... that parasitoid wasps in the genus Trogus emerge (pictured) through the side of swallowtail pupae after using liquid to soften the hard casing?

[29 April 2018] ... that the binomen of the type species of the bee fly genus Brachyanax can be translated as "little chief nipple twister"?

[1 May 2018] ... that China can also be found outside China?

[2 May 2018] ... that the species description for the mite Afropolonia tgifi was likely only approved because the journal's editors were unfamiliar with the expression "TGIF" ("Thank God It's Friday")?

[28 July 2018] ... that spiders in the genus Plato have cubical egg sacs?

[17 December 2018] ... that Escher sentences like "More people have been to Russia than I have" may initially be perceived as meaningful despite being ungrammatical nonsense?

[30 December 2018] ... that the mantis shrimp Acanthosquilla derijardi has a junior synonym named after Princess Sirindhorn of Thailand in reference to a childen's book she wrote?

2019

[2 April 2019] ... that the album Liaisons features works by dozens of composers "re-imagining" Stephen Sondheim's music?

[16 August 2019] ... that Queens at Heart, which features four trans women in the mid-1960s, has been called both a documentary and an exploitation film?

2022

[12 March 2022] ... that H. Radclyffe Roberts once used a parachute, pulleys, and an "insect bomb" to collect grasshoppers from treetops?

[17 March 2022] ... that Gea eff has the shortest scientific name of any spider species?

[20 March 2022] ... that Dutch arachnologist Father Chrysanthus was the only person to make the International Society of Arachnology's first congress "international"?

[20 December 2022] ... that the mite Neotrombicula fujigmo gets its name from the American military acronym for "Fuck you, Jack, I got my orders"?

[26 December 2022] ... that a 700-page article published in Lustrum was issued over the course of twelve years?