A newly discovered treehopper species has been named in honour of Lady Gaga due to its flamboyance and ability to shape-shift.
The insect is now known as Kaikaia gaga thanks to Brendan Morris, a student of entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and entomologist Christopher Dietrich.
“If there is going to be a Lady Gaga bug, it’s going to be a treehopper, because they’ve got these crazy horns, they have this wacky fashion sense about them,” Morris told the U of I News Bureau. “They’re unlike anything you’ve ever seen before.”
The K. gaga was found nearly 30 years ago in a tropical forest in Nicaragua and was being kept at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.
Morris plans to travel to Nicaragua in hopes of finding living K. gaga specimens.