[Taxacom] Neil Evenhuis's new species, Phthiria relativitae

Neal Evenhuis neale at bishopmuseum.org
Fri Jul 27 23:53:30 CDT 2007


At 10:13 PM -0600 7/27/07, Robin Leech wrote:
>Hi Ken and others,
>
>The article is on page 17 of the August 2007 issue of Discover Magazine.
>It reads, including title:
>
>STUPID SCIENCE WORD OF THE MONTH...
>[snip]
>
>That is the entire article, but there is a picture of the fly given.

[... and its first published habitus photograph for the world to see 
(in all its tiny glory). The original article only had bits and 
pieces illustrated.]

BTW: The editors told me this will is a new monthly feature for 
Discover, so be on the lookout for more silly names -- one would 
assume that a photo of the beetle "Enema pan" would surely be coming 
soon to this column.

-Neal




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