Earlier this year, a PhD student named Dominic Evangelista wrote a blog post for Entomology Today where he described a new species of cockroach he had discovered, and offered to name it after the person who donated the most money to his future research efforts.
The highest bidder turned out to be none other than Dr. May Berenbaum, the 2015 Vice President of the Entomological Society of America (ESA) and recent winner of the National Medal of Science.
During Entomology 2014, ESA’s annual meeting in Portland, Ore., Dominic presented Dr. Berenbaum with specimens of the new cockroach, which he named Xestoblatta berenbaumae.
The full description of the new cockroach species will be published soon in the journal ZooKeys.
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Source: Entomology Today
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