Triepeolus melanarius, f, face, Yolo CA
Newish species. (Triepeolus melanarius) or is it? If you want to name a new species you have to get that name published in a recognized journal (as an aside, there are some tricky, and slightly shady, self published journals that focus on the publication of species names that give main-stream taxonomists fits, but what part of human society does not have a component that tries to game the official paradigm? (If you want to have some fun go to the "code" and read through the complexities of taxonomy that arise after a couple of hundred years of combining and recombining and unrecombining and misspellings and double naming plus the joys of Latin endings by people who do not know Latin at:https://www.iczn.org/the-code/the-international-code-of-zoological-nomenclature/the-code-online/)). In the handsome specimen at hand, Molly Rightmyer published its name (in the proper way). However, she notes that the identification of this species as a species that did not have a name and was worthy of publication with a name have been around for decades and decades. The name she used was given by Timberlake (long deceased) in a manuscript that was never published (no relation that I know of to Justin). Fortunately, the specimens were kept in various archaic storage faults called "museums" around the country and she was able to re-create the descriptions and publish it as a now legitimatized species. Demonstrating once the quiet way our race is supported and ultimately saved by taxonomists.
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde. Original public domain image from Flickr