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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?