The Beast!

 

Here is the beast, a little brown hairy beetle. It uses it's antennae and palps (the things sticking out of the sides of the front of the face, under the antennae) to feel, herd, catch, and hold mites and springtails that it eats.

The sketch on the right is its aedeagus (male reproductive organ). In this group, the only way to reliably tell species apart is to compare their male bits. The thing in the middle is the ENDOPHALLUS, the things on the sides are PARAMERES, and they all join at the bottom at the PHALLOBASE. I provided sketches of the ends of the endophallus and paramere that overlap.

The little guy has one of the most outrageous aedeagi in the group, so it seemed fitting to want to name if after another outrageous character.

Cheers,

Mike