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A little camp carabid…

During our Myanmar expedition, the forest of Tamanthi provided many rich pickings and a number of the specimens I collected there are turning out to be undescribed. One day, near the end of our stay there, I was rooting around the stump of a felled tree near our camp and …

Platyrhopalopsis sp. Thailand

Scoundrels – #6

[featured image] As we’ve seen with the ant-mimicking spiders (see scoundrels – #8), the imitation of ants is often very elaborate because of the fringe benefits of living with these industrious insects, namely being able to taunt your predators safe in the knowledge that the worker ants around you are …