A Taxonomist's Notebook

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#365Insects 8: #Trichopoda plumipes (Fabricius, 1805)
Sometimes a species has such a distinctive morphology that any other name just wouldn’t do. Such is the case with Trichopoda (Greek for “hairy foot”) plumipes (Latin for “feathery foot”), the fly...

#365Insects 8: #Trichopoda plumipes (Fabricius, 1805)

Sometimes a species has such a distinctive morphology that any other name just wouldn’t do. Such is the case with Trichopoda (Greek for “hairy foot”) plumipes (Latin for “feathery foot”), the fly with hind legs so nice they name-checked them twice.

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