From mini-AIR; he who writes the book, makes the rules…

Investigators Sally Shelton passes on news from investigator Robin Leech, who passes on news from an entomologists’ discussion:

“Neil Evenhuis described a new species of bee fly (Bombyliidae) from the US Southwest. It is named Phthiria relativitae, n.sp. pronounced Theory O’ Relativity.”

Dr. Evenhuis is past president of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. This naming is, we are told, unrelated to his no longer being president. Further info about the naming (and a subsequent de-naming) appears in Discover magazine http://tinyurl.com/yon2rp