Portal:Arthropods/Did you know/10


 * ... that Cameroon is named after the crustacean Lepidophthalmus turneranus (pictured) which Portuguese settlers observed swarming in the Wouri River in the 15th century?
 * ... that Cyrba spiders are said to be primitive because they retain characteristics that other jumping spiders lost?
 * ... that Austroplatypus incompertus forms colonies in the heartwood of some Eucalyptus trees and was the first beetle recognized as eusocial?
 * ... that the porcelain crab Pisidia longicornis is sometimes found among mussels and oysters in European fish markets?
 * ... that molecular phylogenetics suggests that Pthirus gorillae jumped from gorillas to early humans about 3.3 million years ago and speciated into the present day pubic louse?
 * ... that although American entomologist Harry Hoogstraal was an authority on ticks and tick-borne diseases, organisms bearing his name include a squirrel, a gerbil, a snake, and 200 other species?