by Marlin Peterson | Apr 20, 2010 | Science Illustrations
Recently I was commisioned to do a painting of a particular type of beetle called a Staphylinid, (aka Rove Beetle). This beetle’s latin name is Zalobius nancyae. Of course I was very excited to do a large “habitus” of this fascinating and ancient...
by Marlin Peterson | Feb 19, 2010 | Science Illustrations
This extremely tiny spider (~1mm across!) is called Silhouettella assumptia and is from an elusive and little known family of spiders called Oonopidae. They are known to lay people as the “goblin” spiders, but to latin linguists in labcoats the Oonopidae...