Unusual Latin names for insects

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01.09.2006 8:49, AVA

Well, if such a binge went, I'll give you a few more funny names from the world of animals.

The shortest possible time:
Aa Baker, 1940 (a mollusk)

Geographical features:
Argentina Linnaeus, 1758 (a fish)
Asia Pergens, 1887 (a coelenterate; nomen nudum)
Australia Girault, 1928 (a parasitic hymenopteran)
Babylonia Schlüter, 1838 (a mollusk)
China Burr, 1899 (an orthopteran)
Colombia Rang, 1835 (a mollusk)
Cuba Dyar, 1919 (a lepidopteran)
Florida Baird, 1858 (a bird)
Mexico Spilman, 1972 (a jumping shore beetle)
Samoa Sörensen, 1886 (an arachnid)
Texas Kirkaldy, 1904 (a bug)

Just funny ones:
Aha Menke, 1977 (a wasp)
Cannabis Blyth, 1850 (a bird)
Chaos Linnaeus, 1767 (a protozoan)
Papa Reichenbach, 1850 (a bird)
Paratype Felder, 1874 (a lepidopteran)
Sayonara Jordan and Steele, 1906 (a fish)
Stupidogobius Aurich, 1938 (a fish)
This McAlpine, 1991 (a fly; McAlpine has a poster on his office door with an illustration of the fly and a quote below "Look at This!")
Zyzzyx Pate, 1937 (a wasp)

Aha ha Menke, 1977 (an Australian sphecid wasp; and also Menke's car license plate number!)
Bla nini Inglis, 1963 (a marine nematode)
Brachinus aabaaba Erwin, 1970 (a carabid beetle)
Cavaticovelia aaa (Gagné and Howarth), 1975 (a bug; "aaa" is Hawaiian for lava tube)
Chaos chaos (Linnaeus), 1758 (a protozoan)
Chrysops asbestos Philip, 1950 (a horsefly collected from a mule)
Colon rectum Hatch, 1933 (a colonid beetle)
La cucuracha Blezynski, 1966 (a pyralid moth)
Leonardo davincii Blezynski, 1965 (yet another pyralid moth)
Orgia nova Fitch, 1863 (a beetle)
Pison eu Menke, 1988 (a South American sphecid wasp; read by syllables and species name not in Latin - "eu", but in the American manner - "yu")
Scrotum humanum Brookes, 1763 (a dinosaur)
Trombicula doremi Brennan and Beck, 1955 (musical chigger number one)
Trombicula fasolla Brennan and Beck, 1955 (musical chigger number two)
Upupa epops Linnaeus, 1758 (a bird)
Villa manillae Evenhuis, 1994 (a fly)

And who is bigger?
Brachyta interrogationis interrogationis var. nigrohumeralisscutellohumeroconjuncta Plavltstshikov, 1936 (a cerambycid beetle)
Cancelloidokytodermogammarus (Loveninsuskytodermogammarus) loveni Dybowski, 1926 (a crustacean)
Parastratiosphecomyia stratiosphecomyoides Brunetti, 1923 (a fly)

[Cit. by] A. S. Menke. Funny or Curious Zoological Names. BOGUS Volumino Negatori Doso, pages 24-27. (April Fool's Day 1993)

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20.09.2006 20:47, RippeR

I found some funny names on the link in the topic "the most complete databases.."
anancylus socius-social barbel
Esmeralda coerulea-About Esmeralda!
adetus venezuelensis - adetus, stripped Venezuelan
Alphus - and Omegus
Boninella degenerata-poor
Dihammus bisericus - in Moldovan biserica - church.. such a church mustache

Emphreus rotundipennis - round... in the same Moldavian rotund - round
Gnoma uniformis-uniform of the gnome (uh zamudrili)
Phantasis sansibarica montana-mountain Zanzibar fantasy (also muddied)
Oopsis phillippinarium - what is the scariest word in nuclear physics?
Sodus papuanus is also a poor guy

Serixia plagiata-full plagiarism
quadriplagiata-and this one is already plagiarized at least 4 times

Woytkowskia scorpiona - I think that Voitkovskia is the name given by Voitkovsky.. then it is clear why the species was so named

This post was edited by RippeR - 09/20/2006 20: 49