Looking for the backstory of the frog name, here’s another gem from here.
Now, the caterpillar remains alive for a while as the baby wasps eat it from the inside, bending and squirming as it becomes desiccated and dies. These wiggly movements made the scientists think of Shakira, and thus the species Aleiodes shakirae immortalized the Colombian singer in the annals of zoology.
Temporal: that would explain it. But it still sounds funny.
Copromorphidae: I stand corrected. Shit-shaped moths!
I also found a frog called Allobates niputidea. That’s from Spanish though, not Latin. (ni puta idea = no fucking idea.)
Looking for the backstory of the frog name, here’s another gem from here.
Zoologists are fun.