{"id":700548,"date":"2026-05-28T18:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T18:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700548\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T18:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T18:30:09","slug":"newly-discovered-species-of-wasp-named-after-oscar-piastri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700548\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly-discovered species of wasp named after Oscar Piastri"},"content":{"rendered":"

Researchers have honoured McLaren driver Oscar Piastri<\/a> by naming a newly-discovered species of wasp after the Australian racer.<\/p>\n

A research article<\/a> on the new flat wasp species \u2013 found in Burmese amber in northern Myanmar \u2013 shares details of the discovery, as well as featuring an explanation on why it’s been named \u2018Gwesped piastrii\u2019, after the nine-time Grand Prix winner.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe specific epithet honours Mr Oscar Piastri for his achievements in Formula 1, and because the colour of the amber piece recalled to the first author the iconic McLaren<\/a> orange,\u201d the article reads. \u201cIt is to be treated as a noun in the genitive case.\u201d<\/p>\n

It goes on to state the importance of the species\u2019 discovery, adding: \u201cThe descriptions of Gwesped piastrii contribute to refining our understanding of the morphological diversity within the genus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Piastri has yet to publically comment on the news, with his most recent social media post all about watching the Isle of Man TT<\/a> live for the first time.<\/p>\n

However, it seems likely that there will be plenty of buzz around how he responds to the unique honour \u2013 and whether the other drivers are stung with jealousy remains to be seen\u2026<\/p>\n

Piastri and the rest of the field will soon return to action at the upcoming Monaco Grand Prix<\/a>, which kicks off the European leg of the season on the weekend of June 5-7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Researchers have honoured McLaren driver Oscar Piastri by naming a newly-discovered species of wasp after the Australian racer.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-700548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}