Portal:Arthropods/Did you know/19


 * ... that a typical Labia minor (pictured) is chocolate brown, up to 7 mm long, and is equipped with pincers?
 * ... that the extinct parasitic wasp Metapelma archetypon is thought to have preyed upon wood-boring beetles?
 * ... that the possibly extinct wall crab spider species Garcorops jadis was named for C. S. Lewis' Jadis, the White Witch?
 * ... that the extinct trilobite Bumastus was named after its resemblance to large grapes?
 * ... that the larva of the Texas beetle, Brachypsectra fulva, can live for over two years without feeding?
 * ... that the extinct mason bee species Anthidium exhumatum and Anthidium scudderi are known from the Eocene Florissant Formation in Colorado?