Newly-discovered East African wasp species is named.
April 30, 2015
(April) Discovered by a entomologist Robert Copeland, a Boston Bruins hockey fan, the wasp is named Thaumatodryinus tuukkaraki for Bruin Tukka Rask in a paper that appears in the journal Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. Rask won the Vezina Trophy as best goalie in the National Hockey League in 2014.
Sources
- Boston Globe