New creatures named after the Night King in Game of Thrones

What kind of animal is named after Game of Thrones' last boss?

Although the final part was considered a disaster, Game of Thrones is still considered the most successful series of HBO and gained a huge appeal of the audience.

So when you hear about an animal in Australia suddenly named after Night King - Da Vuong , the character is almost "the last boss" of the movie, everyone thinks it's just a loan game to attract attention. attention of the scientific world.

The King of Game of Thrones.

The animal mentioned here is Paramonovius nightking - the newly discovered bee fly (or bee-fake fly) in Australia. But it turned out that the name was set for absolutely no reason, because this animal had many characteristics similar to the real Night King: they only appeared in the winter, crowns were sharp, upright hairs, and all The body is covered in snow-like dust - the way the Night King appeared.

More importantly, the new fly is only about 11mm long, but they are more than capable of spreading horrors like what the King of Night had done to Westeros, which is turning other insects into "living" forms .

Like other bees, their larvae live in the form of parasites. P. nightking will lay eggs on the host, hatch the larvae and eat the host from the inside before molting.

"Xuankun Li - who named this animal is studying for a doctorate, and is a big fan of Game of thromes" - quoted Bryan Lessard, entomologist at the CSIRO's National Research Institute Australian government.

In fact, P. nightking was discovered in 2012 by two amateur researchers in Wandoo National Park (Australia), but was recently named. Experts at CSIRO want to give it a memorable name, because such animals often do not get the attention of the scientific community and the public. At the moment, less than a quarter of the total number of 500,000 insects in Australia are named.

It is known that P. nightking is not their first member of the insect named after the characters of Game of Thrones. Previously, a group of insect experts from Nebraska-London named three new beetles, Gymnetis drogoni, Gymnetis rhaegali, and Gymnetis viserioni (adapted from three dragons in the series: Drogon, Rhaegal, and Viserion). .