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A rhomboidal crab with long legs on a black background.
Goneplax rhomboides (Crustacea: Decapoda: Goneplacidae)

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A brown spider carrying an egg sac over water.
Dolomedes plantarius (Arachnida: Araneae: Pisauridae)

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A red-and-yellow striped hermit crab leans out of a cone shell.
Ciliopagurus strigatus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Diogenidae)

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An medium-sized orange-brown butterfly with darker brown wing margins and a few wing spots.
Oeneis nevadensis (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

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False-colour SEM of a citrus yellow mite.
Lorryia formosa (Arachnida: Acari: Tydeidae)

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A brown-bodies scorpion with paler appendages.
Mesobuthus martensii (Arachnida: Scorpiones: Buthidae)

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A slender red insect with yellow and black stripes, long wings, and an ovipositor as long as its body.
Megarhyssa macrurus (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)

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A grey woodlouse on the parched earth of the Tunisian desert.
Hemilepistus reaumuri (Crustacea: Isopoda: Agnaridae)

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A black pill millipede, with white borders to each segment.
Glomeris marginata (Myriapoda: Diplopoda: Glomeridae)

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A mass of pale, pinkish thin-shelled crustaceans with flattened white claws.
Lepidophthalmus turneranus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Callianassidae)

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A spider's web stretches across a small river running through a tropical forest.
The web of Caerostris darwini (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae)

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A hermit crab, whose shell is hidden by three large sea anemones on it.
Dardanus pedunculatus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Diogenidae) with Calliactis (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Hormathiidae)

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Pogonomyrmex californicus (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Pogonomyrmex californicus (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

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Mottled wingless insect with large mandibles and numerous setae.
3rd–instar larva of Chrysoperla carnea (Insecta: Neuroptera: Chrysopidae)

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A hermit crab carrying two large sea anemones on its shell.
Calliactis parasitica (Cnidaria: Actiniaria) and Dardanus calidus (Crustacea: Decapoda)

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Two dark red fleshy growths are attached to the gills of a fish.
Lernaeocera branchialis (Crustacea: Copepoda: Pennellidae) on the gills of a whiting (Merlangius merlangus)

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A pink segmented animal with extensive black shading with its head inside a snail's shell.
A larva of Alecton discoidalis (Insecta: Coleoptera: Lampyridae) eats Oleacina (Mollusca: Gastropoda)

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A small, black winged insect with a long neck, encased in amber.
Brevivulva electroma (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Eupelmidae)

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A small, brown earwig on a leaf.
Labia minor (Insecta: Dermaptera: Labiidae)

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Fossil of a giant ant, with a rufous hummingbird, showing the similar size of the two.
Titanomyrma lubei (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with

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Illustration of Eurypterus tetragonophthalmus from J. Nieszkowski's 1858 "De euryptero remipede".
Eurypterus tetragonophthalmus (Merostomata: Eurypterida)

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A large green shield bug with black and yellow marginal markings.
Pycanum rubens (Insecta: Hemiptera: Tessaratomidae)

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Dorsal and ventral views of firefly Photinus carolinus.
Photinus carolinus (Insecta: Coleoptera: Lampyridae)

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Engraving of a butterfly, showing colour bands on all four wings, and clubbed antennae.
Prodryas persephone (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

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Emerita analoga (Decapoda: Hippidae)
Emerita analoga (Decapoda: Hippidae)

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A fossilized imprint of a large-winged insect
Palaeontinidae

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Potamon ibericum (Decapoda: Potamidae)
Potamon ibericum (Decapoda: Potamidae)

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Mesobuthus eupeus (Arachnida: Buthidae)
Mesobuthus eupeus (Arachnida: Buthidae)

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A tiny black insect with feathery wings; the entire body is around 0.5 mm long.
Myanmymar aresconoides (Insecta: Hymenoptera)

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A tiny light brown insect with feathery wings; its body is around 0.4 mm long.
Arescon (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Mymaridae)

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Lepas anserifera (Crustacea: Cirripedia: Lepadidae)

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An orange-red lobster-like animal with no claws, seen from the side.
Neoglyphea inopinata (Crustacea: Decapoda: Glypheidae)

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Several large goose barnacles, covered in large white scale-like plates.
Pollicipes polymerus (Crustacea: Cirripedia: Pollicipedidae)

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A metallic green blowfly.
Lucilia bufonivora (Insecta: Diptera: Calliphoridae)

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A black and cyan dragonfly.
Diphlebia euphoeoides (Insecta: Odonata: Diphlebiidae)

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A medium-sized crab, with claws outstretched, with a yellow body, grading to black in the centre of the carapace.
Guinotia dentata (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pseudothelphusidae)

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