Bees and wasps, and more uncommonly other insects, are for some reason depicted with only two arms/forelimbs and no legs.
Nagas and other Snake People are also commonly depicted with only two forelimbs and without hind limbs.
A subtrope of Somewhere, an Entomologist Is Crying and Funny Animal Anatomy. See Four-Legged Insect for insects with two arms and two legs or four legs and Vertebrate with Extra Limbs for vertebrates and vertebrate based creatures with more than four limbs.
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Examples:
Video Games
- Spyro the Dragon:
- Sparx the dragonfly has only two arms and no legs.
Other
- The mascot of Georgia Tech, the Yellow Jackets, has only two arms and no legs.
