Portal:Insects/Did you know/1


 * ... that Araneagryllus is named from a combination of the Latin aranea meaning "spider" and gryllus meaning "cricket"?
 * ... that the ant Pseudomyrmex ferruginea kills insects such as crickets and stings the heads of animals such as goats, attacking any approaching creatures attracted to the leaves of the Bullhorn Acacia?
 * ... that Electrinocellia peculiaris is named for the Latin "electrum" meaning amber,  "Inocellia", the type genus for Inocelliidae,  and "peculiaris" for the enigmatic nature of the species?
 * ... that the extinct sweat bee Augochlora leptoloba is known from a single specimen now in a private collection in Turin, Italy?
 * ... that the extinct sweat bee genus Nesagapostemon is known from a single 9.9 mm female specimen?