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Post by wollastoni on Jan 18, 2017 18:27:04 GMT
I personnally think that species names should be descriptive of the insect patterns/locality or honouring an entomologist.
I don't like when species names "honour" a politician, a rockstar, a king and so on.
This is done just to make the buzz around a description... which doesn't seem scientific or serious to me.
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Post by luehdorfia on Jan 18, 2017 18:59:51 GMT
I read that the fun thing is this moth occurs in California and Mexico, perhaps the scientist wanted to do something for the US-Mexican relations. And I think this moth can fly over the wall pretty easily...  |
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Post by nomihoudai on Jan 18, 2017 19:27:30 GMT
Take it with humour.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Jan 18, 2017 19:35:02 GMT
Supposedly it is also named after Trump because of the blonde 'wig' of scales on the head. The author is Vazrick Nazari, a well known Lepidopterist.
Adam.
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Post by jshuey on Jan 18, 2017 20:52:16 GMT
Supposedly it is also named after Trump because of the blonde 'wig' of scales on the head. The author is Vazrick Nazari, a well known Lepidopterist. Adam.
Ohhhhh,,,, I heard that it was named for Trump because of it's tiny little genitalia (err... its small tarsi,,,, sorry)
John
(the joke here - if you don't get it, is that during the republican primary, some of the other candidates alluded to how small Trumps little hands were - an allusion that his aedeagus must be similarly small sized. Yes, the US primaries were nothing but a high-brow affair this year.)
(Trump assured the American public that his hands are just fabulously sized. In fact - they are the most perfectly sized "hands" in the World).
I could go on and on - but I think there was just general confusion reguarding small hands/small brains/small penises at the debates in general - I think everyone up there was deficient in at least two categories ....
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Post by Adam Cotton on Jan 18, 2017 22:06:39 GMT
It seems this is not the first taxon named after Trump. Last November a FOSSIL sea urchin was named Tetragramma donaldtrumpi.
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