Question: Recently from the island of which of the following country a new species of beetle named after corona virus has been discovered?
a) Sri Lanka
b) Philippines
c) New Zealand
d) Indonesia
Answer: (d)
Related Facts:-
- Recently scientists from Indonesia named a newly discovered species of beetle in the name of corona virus as Trigonopterus corona.
- On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, museum scientists have discovered 28 new species of beetles.
- All of these species, which measure 2-3 mm, are described in the journal Zookeys.
- One of them has been named Trigonopterus corona.
- This should be noted that it is not the only insect species to be named after the pandemic there are others also.
- In April, a new species of caddisfly (a moth-like insect) was collected near a stream in Kosovo by a team of scientists, and named as Potamophylax coronavirus (Biodiversity Data Journal)
- The same month, out of six new species of Brazilian wasps described in the Journal of Hymenoptera Research, one was named Allorhagas quarentenus.
- Above name is given as a reference to the quarantine, which occurred while the authors were describing the species.
- Earlier in October 2021, Scientists at the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas (UAT) in Mexico recently discovered five new species of parasitoid wasps in Mexico.
- Out of five new wasp species discovered in Mexico, scientists named one Stethantyx covida (Zookeys).
Links:-
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/beetles-species-named-after-corona-7590632/