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Roxy Hastings of the Royal Alberta Museum has picked out the reference to Shillingsworthia shillingsworthi Girault 1920. Girault was not being very kind to J. F. Illingsworth when he described this wasp as a creature with no head, thorax, abdomen, legs, antennae, or wings (i.e., nonexistent), "blank, vacant, inaneness perfect. . . . Visible only from certain points of view. Shadowless. An airy species whose flight cannot be followed except by the winged mind. . . . This so thin genus is consecrated to Doctor Johann Francis Illingworth, in these days remarkable for his selfless devotion to Entomology, not only sacrificing all of the comforts of life, but as well as his health and reputation to the uncompromising search for truth."

Austin, D. 1993. The Nuance and Wit of Carolus Linnaeus. The Palmetto, 13(4)

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