New Flat Bug (Aradidae) Named in Honor of the ACR App
In late July 2020 a paper on neotropical flat bugs was published by the Austrian heteropterologist Ernst Heiss. Among the newly described species is Limonocoris kunzi.
In the etymology section of the paper Heiss writes:
This species is dedicated to Gernot Kunz, biologist at the University of Graz, Austria, recognizing his ambitious and successful efforts to compile the mobile app Animals of Costa Rica, an excellent field guide with 7,000 photos of about 4,700 species.
We are extremely honoured and thankful to Ernst Heiss for dedicating this species to our work.
If you’d like to see how Costa Rican flat bugs (family Aradidae) actually look in the wild, the family is covered in the Animals of Costa Rica App — open the Hemiptera section and filter to “Aradidae” to browse the photo gallery.
— Stefan & Gernot