Taxonomic Ego Trip!
<-- this is an illustration of a headless Myrsidea bessae, a new species of parasitic louse from a Riverside Wren from Panama.
Roger Price, Kevin Johnson, and Bob Dalgleish named the species for me in a recent paper. This is a sincere honor.
I'm thinking that not just anyone would be flattered to have a parasite named for them, but I'm absolutely tickled. You can probably tell, since I'm bragging about it!
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