In 2014, a new fly species belonging to the genus "Prochyliza" was named "Prochyliza georgekaplani", which means "the Prochyliza of George Kaplan". The type specimens of this species, which had been found in Spain a few years before, had been wrongly identified as belonging to "Prochyliza nigricornis", a species described in Europe in the nineteenth century, and which was discovered to be a non-valid species name under taxonomical rules. As the Spanish specimens had been misidentified as a "non-existent species", they were renamed after George Kaplan, the non-existent spy from this movie. The description of the new species was published in the scientific journal "Zootaxa" (issue 3893, pgs. 277-292).
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