Family
Serendipidae Evenhuis, 1994 (fossil flies)
Genera
Aa Baker, 1940 (a mollusk)
Aaadonta Solem, 1976 (an endodontoid snail; see Zyzzyxdonta)
Abudefduf Forsskal, 1775 (a fish)
Aha Menke, 1977 (a wasp)
Alabama Grote, 1895 (a lepidopteran)
Aloha Kirkaldy, 1904 (a bug)
Arfia Van Valen, 1965 (a dog-like fossil hyaenodont)
Argentina Linnaeus, 1758 (a fish)
Ariaspis Denison, 1963 (a fossil fish)
Asia Pergens, 1887 (a coelenterate; nomen nudum)
Australia Girault, 1928 (a parasitic hymenopteran)
Babylonia Schlüter, 1838 (a mollusk)
Batman Whitley, 1956 (a fish)
Bugeranus Gloger, 1842 (a bird, the wattled crane)
Cannabis Blyth, 1850 (a bird)
Chaos Linnaeus, 1767 (a protozoan)
China Burr, 1899 (an orthopteran)
Colombia Rang, 1835 (a mollusk)
Csiro Medvedev and Lawrence, 1984 (a tenebrionid
beetle from Australia;CSIRO is the abbreviation for Commonwealth
Scientific and Industrial Organisation)
Cuba Dyar, 1919 (a lepidopteran)
Cuttysarkus Estes, 1964 (a fossil lizard)
Dasypops Miranda Ribeiro, 1924 (an amphibian)
Disaster Agassiz, 1836 (an echinoid)
Dyaria Meumoegen, 1893 (a moth)
Enema Hope, 1837 (a scarab beetle; see also under species!])
Florida Baird, 1858 (a bird)
Inyoaster Phleger, 1936 (a starfish)
Iyaiyai Evenhuis, 1994 (a fossil fly)
Mamma Moersch, 1852 (a mollusk)
Mexico Spilman, 1972 (a jumping shore beetle)
Ninjameys Gaffney, 1992 (a fossil turtle) (Etymology:
"Ninja, in allusion to that totally rad, fearsome foursome
epitomizing shelled success; meys, turtle.")
Notoreas Meyrick, 1886 (a lepidopteran)
Ochisme Kirkaldy, 1904 (a bug) [also
Polychisme, Dolichisme, Peggichisme by the same
author]
Oops Agassiz, 1846 (an arachnid)
Oops Germar, 1848 (a beetle; described after Agassiz
had already proposed Oops for an arachnid ... oops!)
Papa Reichenbach, 1850 (a bird)
Paratype Felder, 1874 (a lepidopteran)
Psorthaspis Banks, 1912 (a spider wasp with a painful
sting!)
Samba Friese, 1908 (a bee)
Samoa Sörensen, 1886 (an arachnid)
Sayonara Jordan and Steele, 1906 (a fish)
Stupidogobius Aurich, 1938 (a fish)
Supercrambus Bleszynski, 1967 (a pyralis moth)
Texas Kirkaldy, 1904 (a bug)
This McAlpine, 1991 (a fly; McAlpine has a poster on
his office door with an illustration of the fly and a quote below
"Look at This!")
Townesilitus Hesselbarth and Loan, 1983 (a braconid wasp)
Trivia Gray, 1837 (a snail)
Yamagutiplectognathotrema Yamaguti, 1971 (a new name
for the preoccupied Plectognathotrematoides Yamaguti,
1971!)
Zyzzyx Pate, 1937 (a wasp)
Zyzzyxdonta Solem, 1976 (an endodontoid snail with
characters the extreme opposite of Aaadonta!)
Species
Agra sasquatch Erwin, 1982 (a carabid beetle with
big feet)
Agra vation Erwin, 1983 (a carabid beetle)
Afropolonia tgifi Goff, 1983 (a chigger)
Aha ha Menke, 1977 (an Australian sphecid wasp; and
also Menke's
car license plate number!)
Aploparakis turdi Williamson and Rausch, 1965 (a cestode)
Apolysis humbugi (Evenhuis), 1985 (a bombyliid fly from Humbug
Creek, California)
Ba humbugi Solem, 1976 (a snail from Mba Island, Fiji)
Bla nini Inglis, 1963 (a marine nematode)
Brachinus aabaaba Erwin, 1970 (a carabid beetle)
Brachyanax thelestrephones Evenhuis, 1981 (a fly;
translated from
the Greek it means "little chief nipple twister")
Brachyta interrogationis interrogationis var.
nigrohumeralisscutellohumeroconjuncta
Plavltstshikov, 1936 (a cerambycid beetle)
Bullisichthys caribbaeus Rivas, 1971 (a fish)
Cancelloidokytodermogammarus
(Loveninsuskytodermogammarus)
loveni Dybowski, 1926 (a crustacean)
Cartwrightia cartwrighti Cartwright, 1967 (a beetle)
Castanea inca dincado Miller, 1972 (a moth)
Cavaticovelia aaa (Gagné and Howarth), 1975 (a
bug; "aaa"
is Hawaiian for lava tube)
Cedusa medusa McAtee, 1924 (a bug)
Chaos chaos (Linnaeus), 1758 (a protozoan)
Chrysops asbestos Philip, 1950 (a horsefly collected
from a mule)
Chrysops balzaphire Philip, 1955 (another horsefly)
Chrysops nigribimbo Whitney, 1879 (still another horsefly)
Colon rectum Hatch, 1933 (a colonid beetle)
Dissup irae (Kovalev), 1989 (a "difficult to see"
fossil fly)
Doryctes fartus Provancher, 1880 (a braconid wasp)
Enema pan (Fabricius), 1775 (a rhinoceros beetle)
Geoballus caputalbus Crabill, 1969 (a millipede named after its
collectors, George Ball and Donald Whitehead)
Gluteus minimus Davis and Semken, 1975 (a Devonian
fossil of uncertain
affinities)
Gressittia titsadasyi Philip, 1980 (a horsefly)
La cucuracha Blezynski, 1966 (a pyralid moth)
La paloma Blezynski, 1966 (another pyralid moth)
Lalapa lusa Pate, 1946 (a tiphiid wasp)
Leonardo davincii Blezynski, 1965 (yet another
pyralid moth)
Mastophora dizzydeani Eberhard, 1984 (a spider that
uses a sticky
ball on the end of a thread to catch its prey)
Montypythonoides riversleighensis Smith and Plane,
1985 (a fossil
snake)
Myzocallis kahawaluokalani Kirkaldy, 1907 (an aphid;
in Hawaiian,
the name supposedly means "you fish on your side of the lagoon and I'll fish
on the other, and no one will fish in the middle")
Orgia nova Fitch, 1863 (a beetle)
Parastratiosphecomyia stratiosphecomyoides Brunetti,
1923 (a fly)
Phthiria relativitae Evenhuis, 1985 (a fly)
Pimeliaphilus podapolipophagus Tragardh, 1905 (an acarine)
Pisolina yangwanggouensis Zhang and Wang, 1974 (a
fossil foram)
Pison eu Menke, 1988 (a South American wasp)
Pison eyvae Menke, 1988 (a South American wasp)
Polemistus chewbacca Menke, 1983 (a wasp; named after the "Star
Wars" character)
Polemistus vaderi Menke, 1983 (a wasp; named after
another "Star
Wars" character)
Prolasioptera aeschynanthusperottetii Mani, 1943 (a cecidomyiid
fly)
Reissa roni Evenhuis, 2002 ( a microbombyliid fly)
Rochlingia hitleri Guthörl, 1934 (a giant fossil insect;
the name is a synonym; see Can. J. Zool. 61: 1684-1685 for discussion
of the appropriateness of the name)
Scrotum humanum Brookes, 1763 (a dinosaur)
Stenotabanus sputnikulus Philip, 1958 (a fly; named
for Sputnik)
Tabanus nippontucki Philip, 1942 (a horsefly; described during
the bombing of Pearl Harbor)
Tabanus rhizonshine Philip, 1954 (another horsefly)
Tabanus yuleanus Philip, 1950 (a horsefly named after
a memorable
Christmas day in 1946)
Trombicula doremi Brennan and Beck, 1955 (musical
chigger number
one)
Trombicula fasolla Brennan and Beck, 1955 (musical
chigger number
two)
Trombicula fujigmo Philip and Tucker, 1950 (another
chigger--ask
any WWII U.S. veteran what "fujigmo" stands for)
Upupa epops Linnaeus, 1758 (a bird)
Villa manillae Evenhuis, 1994 (a fly)
For a continually updated supplemental list by Doug Yanega (including some plant names as well), click HERE .