Ruth Bader Ginsburg provides name for a new species of insect
JTA, “Ruth Bader Ginsburg the namesake for new species of insect”, 3 June 2016:
(JTA) — Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish Supreme Court justice, may have a university named for him.
But Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first female Jewish Supreme Court justice now has an entire species named for her, even if it is a rather small one: the leaf-dwelling Ilomantis ginsburgae, a newly identified type of praying mantis.
Named after Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
A newly identified praying mantis from Madagascar - Ilomantis ginsburgae
Credit: Rick Wherley / Cleveland Museum of Natural History
