r/Israel • u/Shekel_Hadash Israel • 2d ago

General News/Politics The Hebrew language academy decided to rename the butterfly specie “Melitaea ornata” to “Ariel nymph” after slain hostage Ariel Bibas. (Hebrew article)

https://www.ynet.co.il/environment-science/article/hjnsohap1e
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u/Shekel_Hadash Israel 2d ago

The previous name was “Jerusalem Nymph”

The academy also got a blessing from Yarden Bibas for the name changing

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u/RoyU16 2d ago

Incidentally Ariel is also one of Jerusalem's biblical names, so it's incredibly fitting.

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u/itay162 2d ago

I think it's intentional

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u/gal_z 1d ago

Ariel is a name of one of the rooms in the temple.

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u/blellowbabka 2d ago

All I had to do was read the headline and I started crying. A'H beautiful boy

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u/IchTanze 2d ago

The title is slightly incorrect. It seems like the scientific name would remain the same, but the common name would change. Though I'm also not sure if they are speaking of Melitaea ornata, which has the type location in Russia, or a subspecies that's just found in Israel and may not be widely recognized, or perhaps they mean the entire group of Melitaeae phoebe which has a huge distribution around the world. I didn't dive into the literature on this species, just a look at some of the debate on Wikipedia.

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u/countvlad-xxv_thesly 8h ago

Of course the scientific name doesnt change no one was thinking that i dont think anything had its scientific name changed unless scientists found the basis for the name to be false

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u/Braincyclopedia 2d ago

That's a sweet gesture