RE: post cute animals
04-25-2016, 02:14 AM
Assassin bugs stab other bugs with their faces and suck the life out of 'em.
In Japan, many animal names are a string of words (fragments, often) that go from the specific to the general, often taxonomically. Thus, true bugs are called kame-mushi (turtle bugs). We call a particular superfamily of true bugs "shield bugs", so the name makes sense if Japanese taxonomists discovered shield bugs first and all the less-shieldy bugs later.
Particular subgroups therein have names ending in kame-mushi, like the kin-kamemushi ("gold turtle bugs", what we call jewel bugs.) Why I've brought the assassin bug to your attention is because they're known as sashi-kamemushi, or stabbing turtle bugs.
The specimen in the photo, Agriosphodrus dohrni (no common English name), is known as the Yokozuna-sashi-kame. The sumo-champion stabbing turtle.
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eyes blood red bruise aubergine | Sue took something now Sue doesn't sleep | saint average, day in the life of
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staying warm in arctic blizzard | that's my battle 'til I get inanimate | still up in the same clothes living like a gameshow