I love it that this beetle is named after the poet!
I did a quick internet search of species named after writers and found a few others of interest. Longfellow has a couple of wasps named after him, as do Keats, Dante, Plutarch, Shakespeare, Thoreau, & Emerson (I guess there are a lot of wasps around to be named…or maybe wasp entomologists are particularly fond of poets?); Sappho’s name has been given to both a butterfly and a hummingbird, and Nabokov’s to a butterfly (naturally).
How cool is this? Really enjoyed the post on Transtroemer.
Karen
I love it that this beetle is named after the poet!
I did a quick internet search of species named after writers and found a few others of interest. Longfellow has a couple of wasps named after him, as do Keats, Dante, Plutarch, Shakespeare, Thoreau, & Emerson (I guess there are a lot of wasps around to be named…or maybe wasp entomologists are particularly fond of poets?); Sappho’s name has been given to both a butterfly and a hummingbird, and Nabokov’s to a butterfly (naturally).
Oddly, I found no beetle named after Kafka.
Marvelous stuff for biologists, poets & dreamers – .