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 * ... that the extinct Eocene parasitic wasp Brevivulva electroma (pictured) was named from the Greek words meaning "short amber wrapper"?
 * ... that in the burrowing wolf spider Allocosa brasiliensis, males often eat older, less fecund females that they lured into their burrow using pheromones, while preferring to mate with virgins?
 * ... that the extinct parasitic wasp genus Aspidopleura is known from only two fossils found in Baltic amber?
 * ... that only one side of the extinct parasitic wasp Neanaperiallus is visible in its sole fossilized specimen?
 * ... that the queen ant of the Acropyga acutiventris carries a mealybug Xenococcus annandalei in her jaws on her nuptial flight?
 * ... that a species of crab, Tumidotheres maculatus, has been found living on an asteroid?