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Lady Gaga
Brendan Morris
state Illinois
city Pittsburgh
Nicaragua
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Lady Gaga
Brendan Morris
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A newly discovered insect species in Nicaragua was just named after Lady Gaga
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thefader.comA new genus of treehopper bugs found near the Pacific coast of Nicaragua has been named after Lady Gaga. Kaikaia gaga, named by Brendan Morris (a PhD candidate in entomology at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is distinguished by a lack of "cucullate setae of the mesothoracic femora" and posseses a "narrow, straight shape of the second valvulae." The species hasn't been properly photographed yet, so if those words went over your head, a quick image search of platycentrus (a treehopper it closely resembles) should do the trick.
Morris discovered the female species from a 30-year specimen borrowed from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. “If there is going to be a Lady Gaga bug, it’s going to be a treehopper,
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