News Headline
Rainbow colours and legs for days’: Australian fly species named after drag star RuPaul
Source
Guardian (Australia)
Publication Date
2021-09-15
The first insect Bryan Lessard named after a pop culture icon was the Beyoncé fly – Scaptia beyonceae, in 2011. At the time, the CSIRO entomologist caused quite a stir, and was “frowned upon” by some taxonomists.