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Yeah, this sentence: "The new species was dubbed Semachrysa jade — not after its pale green color, but after Winterton's daughter." just bothered me. A total dick move by Winterton.

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It's pretty presumptuous to call someone a dick when you know none of the details of the situation. It's entirely possible that he asked the guy if he wanted to name it and he turned it down.

I am the photographer. Shaun asked if it's okay to name it after his daughter. At that time, I thought it can't be named after the person who discovered the new species so I agreed.

Anyway, that's in the past now. Click here to check out more images of this beautiful lacewing: http://orionmystery.blogspot.com/2012/08/semachrysa-jade-new...

Thank you for coming here and clarifying.

I hope this only encourages you to take more photographs, and one day soon you'll have a new species named after you!

Thank you! Oh I love nature photography, esp the smaller creatures! It will be cool to have a species named after me! :)

Only if anecdotal, I find people from English speaking nations outside of North America being incredibly opportunistic in these things.

This observation purely emerges from my experience.

Some are in for the fame, others for the money.

I find North Americans incredibly opportunistic in registering patents. A friend that does network support outsourcing was complaining that their (American) boss was setting targets on number of patents registered by their support gig.

isn't that a bit of a generalization

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