Tweets,

I noticed these articles answering a post about an insect named after the
late Freddy Mercury (singer of the band Queen) and thought they were pretty
funny.

>>>I ... think that no other singer has received such kind of honour
>
>>Sorry - you're way behind. The late lamented Jack Gates Clarke
>>described a GENUS in the Tineidae in 1971 - PETULA Clarke - and giggled
about it
>>for many years afterwards.....
>>
>>Hell, the insect world is full of mercurialises. Try also La paloma and
>>La cucaracha in the Pyralidae for a little light relief. I take
>>responsibility for species named after Zaphod Beeblebrox and Royal
>>Brunei Airlines among others..... Terry Erwin got away with Agra phobia and
>>Agra vation in the Coleoptera.... There's nothing new under the sun.

>Or the snail Abra cadabra.....
>Daniel Heald
>
BTW- this is not off topic. It's actually quite illustrative about
science, scientists and the fact that insect taxonomists have way more to
work with than avian systematists.


Alvaro Jaramillo
Half Moon Bay, CA

alvaro at quake.net