My insect patronyms
I have been honored to have several taxa of insects named after me (by both acquaintances/coworkers as well as complete strangers).
Genus
Zuparka1 Heraty & Burks, 2017 (Hymenoptera: Eucharitidae)
Species
Neomymar zuparkoi Triapitsyn, Berezovskiy & Huber 2006 (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae)
Neoponera zuparkoi Mackay, 2010 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Pachycondyla zuparkoi Mackay & Mackay, 2010 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Stentorceps zuparkoi Nielson & Buffington, 2011 (Hymenoptera: Figitidae)
Trichoteleia zuparkoi Talamas & Masner, 2011 (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae)
Aspicera zuparcoi [sic] Ros-Farré & Pujade-Villar, 2013 (Hymenoptera: Figitidae)
Trichiscus zuparkoi Azevedo, 2014 (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae)
Moorella zuparkoi Triapitsyn & Trjapitzin, 2015 (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) [NB: Authors were father (Vladimir) and son (Serguei), who spelled their last names differently]
Felisacus zuparkoi Namyatova & Cassis, 2016 (Hemiptera: Miridae)
Ypsilonigaster zuparkoi Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault, 2018 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)
Dichaetomyia zuparkoi Zielke, 2020 (Diptera: Muscidae)
Ganomymar zuparkoi Triapitsyn 2021 (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae)
1 When devising a new name, authors are allowed a wide latitude when it comes to spelling it. But names need to be “Latinized”, meaning their endings reflect either a masculine, feminine or neuter form names (and species included in any given genus must have names that agree with the gender of the genus name). Heraty and Burks described eight genera in their paper, chosing to designate all of them as feminine, hence the genus honoring me received a final “a”, instead of an “o”.