Shadow-loving insect named after Tuomas Holopainen of Nightwish
Monday, March 6, 2017 - 11:31
in Biology & Nature
Tuomas Holopainen of the band Nightwish is a full-blooded nature person. This gave a conservation biologist an idea for the name of a new species he found in Finland. Discovered in eastern Lapland during an insect survey, the fungus gnat was given the scientific name Sciophila holopaineni after Tuomas.