Photos by Eduardo Faundez, Ph.D.

Reminds me of the recent Arnold Schwarzenegger bug naming.

We had a very nice tessaratomid bug, blackish in color with lateral yellow ornaments; it was really looking to us like K-2SO. Thus, instead of desisting, we believed there should be a way. Social networks gave us the answer: We found the hashtag #kaytuesso, referring to the spelling of K-2SO! So we got it. In January 2018, in a paper published in the journal Zootaxa, we named our new genus Kaytuesso, with its new species Kaytuesso flavolateralis, the specific name referring to the lateral yellowish ornaments of this bug. So, for future reference, there is a possibility for C-3PO (#seethreepio) R2-D2 (#artoodetoo) and even BB-8 (#beebeeate) to get their own species or genera

Click here to read the full article “Naming a Bug After a Droid: The Case of Kaytuesso flavolateralis” by Dr. Eduardo Faundez for Entomology Today.