Agra schwarzeneggeri

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Agra schwarzeneggeri
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Carabidae
Genus: Agra
Species:
A. schwarzeneggeri
Binomial name
Agra schwarzeneggeri
Erwin, 2002 [1]

Agra schwarzeneggeri is a species of carabid beetle. It is named after the actor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The holotype was collected in Costa Rica and first described to science in 2002. [1]

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Etymology

The binomial nomenclature references Schwarzenegger, because of the markedly developed '(biceps-like)' middle femora of the males. [1] Erwin later remarked in an interview that his students had prepared an image of A. schwarzeneggeri and sent it out to Schwarzenegger himself: he signed it "Thanks for thinking of me - Arnold" and returned it.

Other species in the genus named by Terry L. Erwin include Agra liv , named after Liv Tyler, and Agra katewinsletae , named after Kate Winslet. [2] Similarly, James Cameron had a species of frog named after him Pristimantis jamescameroni.

Description

Agra schwarzeneggeri measure 14–17 mm (0.55–0.67 in) in length and 4.4–5.16 mm (0.173–0.203 in) in width. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Erwin, T. L. (2002). "The beetle family Carabidae of Costa Rica: twenty-nine new species of Agra Fabricius 1801 (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Lebiini, Agrina)" (PDF). Zootaxa . 119: 1–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.119.1.1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-11-05. Retrieved 2009-04-16.
  2. Rice, M. E. (March 2015). "Terry L. Erwin: She Had a Black Eye and in Her Arm She Held a Skunk". American Entomologist. 61 (1): 9–15. doi: 10.1093/ae/tmv002 .