The insects have bright orange wings with black ring markings, which apparently reminded the experts of Sauron's all-seeing eye.
The last two decades have been quite an incredible time for The Lord of the Rings, between the movies, TV series and countless spin-offs. Its omnipresence almost makes me worry there's too much of it, and the pipeline shows no signs of slowing down
at the end of this month). One new LOTR-related piece of news, however, actually brought a smile to my face. Scientists have identified and named a new group of butterflies after Sauron, the series' villain and scourge of Middle-Earth. The name is because the insects have bright orange wings with black ring markings, which apparently reminded the experts of Sauron's all-seeing eye described in the novels and realised magnificently in the Jackson films.
The genus is called Saurona and so far two species have been added to it: Saurona triangular and Saurona aurigera. It's expected there will be many more joining them. A fellowship, perhaps? Dr. Blanca Huertas, senior curator of butterflies at the Natural History Museum, is part of the team that described the new genus in a paper published in the journal
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