Green Options » sceince http://greenoptions.com/tag/sceince Posts tagged 'sceince' Thu, 07 May 2009 02:22:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Stephen Colbert Has New Species Named After Him http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/05/07/stephen-colbert-has-new-species-named-after-him/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/05/07/stephen-colbert-has-new-species-named-after-him/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 02:22:32 +0000 Jake Richardson http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/05/07/stephen-colbert-has-new-species-named-after-him/ colbert

Researchers at Arizona State Univerity and the University of New Mexico have named a Venezuelan diving beetle Agaporomorphus colberti in honor of the humorist.

One of the outstanding features of the species is the genitalia of the males. “This new species is similar to members of a clade within the genus exemplified by A. knischi…and unique in having similar, extremely complicated male genitalia…”

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