The new horned cicada is named after Lady Gaga

A new horned cicada with strange sexual organs and antennae took the same strange name as Lady Gag because of its bizarre and eccentric form, which Brendan Morris, an entomologist at the University of Illinois, named Kaikaia gaga by borrowing a gaga.

This horned cicada feeds on plants, pierces the plants with sharp-beaked tools to suck up sap, and uses branches and leaves to transmit vibrations produced by the body to interact with each other.

Morris said that if we want to talk about the insect world Lady Gag, it is none other than the horned cicadas, their exaggerated antennae and enigmatic appearance say it all, we have never seen such an insect. Horned cicadas have lived on Earth for about 40 million years, and they look strange, and they are the only one in the insect world, and I like their diverse shapes and colors, which is a magical species.

The insect with the name of the diva is not only this horned cicada, a huge rare horse fly found in Queensland, Australia in 1981 because of the beautiful golden fluff on the tail, the beautiful color makes the creatures who are ready to be named unforgettable, the naming team remembered that also for the American diva Beyoncé, born in 1981, so in 2011 officially named it Captia beyonceae, highlighting their unforgettable hip style. There's also a Beetle called Agra Katewinsletae, whose name comes from titanic actress Kate Winslet.

Found 30 years ago in the tropical rainforests of the Pacific coast of Nicaragua, this horned cicada belongs to a new species of horned cicada that has been discovered in the same region. Entomologists have identified the horned cicada from thousands of insect specimens borrowed from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and to distinguish insect species, entomologists rely on the specimens' different features in terms of head, body shape, leg hair, body hair, and genitals. When they looked at gaga under a high-power microscope, they found several different features, and like most specimens, their antennae were located in the thoracic cavity behind the head, but the leg hair of this horned cicada was different from that of other identified horned cicadas. Their lip base, similar to the place of the face, is completely different in shape, and the genitals are also more like Caribbean horned cicadas. Next, we will further investigate why this horned cicada has the same characteristics as the more ancient horned cicada.

Because the horned cicada specimen is 30 years old, Morris was unable to successfully extract DNA from it, and he plans to go to the rainforest where Kaikaia gaga was found in Nicaragua to collect live samples.

The study was published in the journal Zootaxa.

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