A new species of water beetle found clinging to a sandstone rock in a fast-flowing stream that leads to a waterfall in Malaysian Borneo has been named after the actor Leonardo DiCaprio. The DiCaprio beetle is only the latest new species to be named after a prominent figure. Kate Winslet, who starred alongside DiCaprio in Titanic, already has a beetle named after her, as do George W Bush, Bill Clinton and Adolf Hitler. Photograph: Iva Njunjić/Hendrik Freitag“In this case, we didn’t name the beetle because it looks like Leonardo DiCaprio,” said Iva Njunjić at Taxon Expeditions. Njunjić said the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation was informed late last week.

Source: The Guardian April 30, 2018 15:00 UTC