Agra catbellae explained

Agra catbellae is a species of carabid beetle named after the actress Catherine Bell. The holotype was collected in Costa Rica and first described to science in 2002.[1]

Etymology

Terry L. Erwin, who described the species, explained that the binomial nomenclature is catbellae because it is the "combined name of the actress starring on the then-current TV program JAG, Catherine Bell. These beetles share the forest with an elegant cat, the Jaguar".[1]

Other species in the genus Agra named by Erwin include Agra liv, named after Liv Tyler, and Agra schwarzeneggeri, named after Arnold Schwarzenegger.[2]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Erwin, T. L.. 2002. The Beetle Family Carabidae of Costa Rica: Twenty-nine new species of Agra Fabricius 1801 (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Lebiini, Agrina). Zootaxa. 119. 1–68. 10.11646/zootaxa.119.1.1. 2018-02-22. 2012-11-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20121105105918/http://si-pddr.si.edu/dspace/bitstream/10088/2839/1/CR_Agra.pdf. dead.
  2. Terry L. Erwin: She Had a Black Eye and in Her Arm She Held a Skunk. Rice, M. E.. March 2015. American Entomologist. 61. 1. 9–15. 10.1093/ae/tmv002. free.