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Monday, June 8, 2015

Wasp Etymology


I read a wide variety of publications, and today I read an article about insects in the June 2015 issue of the Finnish American Reporter that has a Latin angle to it. The article is about the naming of a new species of wasp for the Boston Bruins' goalie, Tuukka Rask. The wasp has the genus name Thaumatodryinus and the new species name tuukkaraski, which follows the format of ending in -i, as specified by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Mr. Rask, winner of the 2014 Vezina Trophy for best goalie in the NHL, is also the goalie for the Finnish National ice hockey team, and, to quote the article, "whose glove hand is as tenacious as the raptorial fore tarsus of this dryinid species." More information can be found in the delightfully Latinate scientific journal Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae.


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