Another immortal among us!
Moose
Dean Hansen wrote:
> Working with insects, it's often not too hard to come up with undiscovered
> species that must be named. I had ten for my thesis, so, of course, my
> wife's middle name is now immortalized in entomology as Diamesa colenae, for
> a small mosquito-like fly found in Wyoming. "timealyii" and "colenae" are
> called patronymics. It can be fun, however, to come up with something
> descriptive. My new species included: Diamesa cheimatophila, "lover of
> winter." D. chiobates, "he who walks on the snow." D. nivicavernicola,
> "snow cave dweller." No one yet has been rendered speechless with awe and
> respect, but the midge I mentioned a week or two ago finding on the Beartooth
> Plateau was subsequently described as Trichotanypus hanseni.
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