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Insect named for Hitler draws criticism from organizational, academic circles

David SwindleFebruary 23, 2023

“I can’t think of any defensible reason to name an insect or any other organism after a reprehensible dictator,” David Skelly, director of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, told JNS.

A man-faced stink bug, or catacanthus incarnatus, also called a “Hitler bug.” Credit: Wikipedia.

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