Prof John Longino, an entomologist with the University of Utah, has described 33 new species of predatory ants in Central America and the Caribbean, and named about a third of them after ancient Mayan lords. This photo shows the magnified monster-like face of the ant Eurhopalothrix zipacna, named after Zipacna, a vicious, crocodile-like demon of Mayan mythology (© John T. Longino / University of Utah). In a study published in the journal Zootaxa,...
