Scientists Name 'Diving Beetle' for Comedy Central's Colbert
Wednesday, May 6, 2009 - 20:42
in Biology & Nature
Agaporomorphus colberti, a diving beetle from Venezuela, was named by entomologists Quentin Wheeler of Arizona State University and Kelly Miller of the University of New Mexico to honor Stephen Colbert, the satirical host and executive producer of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report."
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