{"id":459534,"date":"2026-09-10T16:26:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T16:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/459534\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T16:26:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T16:26:37","slug":"university-of-california-riverside-scientist-names-new-insect-species-after-taylor-swift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/459534\/","title":{"rendered":"University of California Riverside scientist names new insect species after Taylor Swift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, September 10, 2026 3:30PM<\/p>\n<p>A scientist at the University of California Riverside paid tribute to Taylor Swift by naming a new insect genus after the pop star.<\/p>\n<p>WPVI<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">A scientist at the University of California Riverside paid tribute to Taylor Swift by naming a new insect genus after the pop star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The name combines &#8220;Swiftie,&#8221; the term for Swift&#8217;s fans, with &#8220;Phylus,&#8221; a name commonly used for this group of plant-eating insects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Swiftiephylus includes four species named in Latin after the artist and several of her albums, including Lover, Fearless and The Tortured Poets Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The insects&#8217; pale yellow and red coloring reminded researchers of Swift&#8217;s blonde hair and red lips.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A scientist at the University of California Riverside paid tribute to Taylor Swift by naming a new insect genus after the pop star.\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/19815545_091026-wpvi-taylor-swift-bug-img.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A scientist at the University of California Riverside paid tribute to Taylor Swift by naming a new insect genus after the pop star.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, September 10, 2026 3:30PM A scientist at the University of California Riverside paid tribute to Taylor Swift&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[181238,7,9,8],"class_list":["post-459534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-181238","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}