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Wasp found in amber named after Dracula


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So you've discovered an unusual winged insect preserved in amber, and it happens to have a superb set of mouth parts dangling from its head. 

You could name it after a president's body part, maybe. If not David Attenborough. Again. Or just do what one researcher did with a specimen that doesn't seem to fit in anywhere else – name it after that most famous of bloodsuckers, Dracula.

The tiny 2.5-millimetre (1/10th of an inch) winged fiend is a clear example of a Cretaceous period wasp belonging to a superfamily called Serphitoidea. Unfortunately that was as easy as taxonomy got for this discovery.

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-weird-wasp-found-in-burmese-amber-was-named-after-dracula-for-obvious-reasons

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