Portal:Arthropods/Did you know/9


 * ... that Glomeris marginata (pictured), a pill millipede, is often confused with the woodlouse Armadillidium, because they both roll themselves up into a ball when disturbed?
 * ... that Mimoides phaon was the first swallowtail butterfly of the genus Mimoides to stray into the United States?
 * ... that the meat of the slipper lobster Ibacus peronii is considered inferior to that of the Moreton Bay bug because it sometimes tastes of garlic?
 * ... that when analyzing relationships of the harvestmen it is found that they are not true spiders, as often believed, but are in fact more closely related to scorpions?
 * ... that the "orchid dupe wasp", Lissopimpla excelsa, ejaculates visible amounts of semen as it tries to copulate with flowers of the leafless, large and tartan tongue orchids, which it mistakes for a female wasp?
 * ... that Tanymastix stagnalis is the only species of fairy shrimp to occur in Ireland?