Amblyoproctus boondocksius Ratcliffe (scarab) from the boondocks.

Ambondro mahabo Flynn & Wyss (Jurassic mammal) named for the Madagascan village of Ambondromahabo.

Apolysis humbugi Evenhuis, 1985 (bombyliid fly) From Humbug Creek, CA.

Oligodranes humbug Evenhuis, 1985 (bombyliid fly) Another from Humbug Creek.

Asiamericana asiatica Nessov, 1995 (fossil saurodontid fish)

Caulkicephalus 2005 (pterosaur) Found on the Isle of Wright, where the inhabitants are informally known as caulkhead.

Dysnocryptus balthasar, D. gaspar, and D. melchior Holloway, 1982 (weevils) from Three Kings' Islands, New Zealand.

Gwyneddichtis gwyneddensis Bock, 1959 (fossil fish), and

Gwyneddichnium gwyneddensis Bock (fossil reptile footprints) both from the Gwynedd Formation at the Gwynedd Tunnel in Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania.

Haasiophis terrasanctus Tchernov, Rieppel, Zaher, Polcyn & Jacobs, 2000 (Lower Cretaceous marine snake) Named after "holy land", as it was discovered in 'Ein Yabrud, Judean Hills, Israel. It has tiny, well-developed, hind limbs, but there is no indication it could talk.

Hylaeus emir Dathe, 2000 (bee) Named for the United Arab Emirates, where it was discovered; its magnificient coloring also suggests the country's emirs.

Myzocallis kahawaluokalani Kirkaldy (aphid) The Hawaiian name supposedly means, "you fish on your side of the lagoon and I'll fish on the other, and no one will fish in the middle."

Panama canalia Marsh, 1993 (braconid)

Rattus nativitatis (Christmas Island bulldog rat) (recently extinct)

Alabama Grote, 1895 (lep)

Argentina Linnaeus, 1758 (fish) Probably NOT named after the country, but for the Latin for "silver" (which the country is also named for).

Arizona (snake)

Asia Pergens, 1887 (coelentrate; nomen nudum)

Australia Girault, 1928 (parasitic wasp)

Babylonia Schlüter, 1838 (mollusk)

Bulgaria (fungus)

Burma Kirkaldy, 1904 (bug)

China Burr, 1899 (orthopteran)

Colombia Rang, 1835 (mollusk)

Cuba Dyar, 1919 (lep)

Florida Baird, 1858 (bird)

Martialis heureka Rabeling, Brown and Verhaagh, 2008 (ant) "The genus name refers to the unknown combination of aberrant morphological characters, which led Stefan P. Cover and Edward O. Wilson to the conclusion that this ant has to be from the planet Mars." (Five years earlier, two of these ants were discovered and subsequently lost; the rediscovery prompted the epithet heureka, Greek for "I found it!") [PNAS 0806187105]

Mexico Spilman, 1972 (jumping shore beetle)

Noumea Risbec, 1928 (nudibranch)

Samoa Sörensen, 1886 (arachnid)

Sonora Baird and Girard 1853 (snake)

Texas Kirkaldy, 1904 (bug)

Uruguay (fossil bee cells) from the Late Cretaceous/Early Tertiary, in Uruguay.

Virginia Baird and Girard 1853 (snake)

Technosaurus Chatterjee, 1984 (prosauropod dinosaur) "Texas Technological University (Texas Tech) Lizard"

Myzostoma seymourcollegiorum Rouse and Grygier, 2005 (annelid) Seymour College is a girl's school in a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.

Xerocomus silwoodensis Taylor et al., 2007 (mushroom) Discovered on the Silwood Park campus of Imperial College London.

Ainu Lewis, 1894 (beetle) There are also several species named after these indigenous northern Japanese.

Aphyocharax yekwanae Willink, Chernoff & Machado-Allison, 2003 (tetra) In honor of the Ye'Kwana Indians of the Caura River Basin, Venezuela, where the fish is found.

Azteca (ant)

Berberosaurus Allain et al., 2007 (theropod dinosaur) referring to the Berbers of Morocco. The fossil is from the Atlas mountains of Morocco.

Callithrix saterei de Sousa & de Noronha, 1998 Named for the Satere-Maues indians in Amazonian Brazil. [Goeldiana Zoologia 21: 1]

Galeodes arabs C.L. Koch, 1842 (solfugid, or sun spider) from the Middle East. (Reaching 10 miles/hour, these may be the fastest terrestrial invertebrates.)

Hopiichnus Welles, 1971 (trackway of a lower Jurassic ornithomimid dinosaur) from Arizona; named for the Hopi.

Incadelphys (South American fossil marsupial). There are also Larosterna inca (Inca tern) and Scardafella inca (Inca dove). The last is also misnamed; it is found in the southern U. S. and in Central America, but not in South America.

Lexovisaurus Hoffestetter, 1957 (French stegosaur) named for the ancient Gallic Lexovix tribe.

Micronycteris matses Simmons, Voss, & Fleck, 2002 (Matses' big-eared bat) for the Matses indians of Amazonian Brazil.

Navahoceros (Pleistocene mountain deer)

Navahopus Baird, 1980 (Jurassic footprints) from the Navajo Sandstone

Nipponia nippon (Japanese crested ibis)

Piratosaurus Leidy, 1865 (Late Cretaceous North American Mosasaur)

Prosaurolophus blackfeetensis Horner, 1992 (duck-billed dinosaur) found on a Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Montana.

Suncus etruscus (Etruscan shrew) Its type locality is in Pisa, Italy, in the heartland of the ancient Etruscan civilization.

Yanomamua Grant, Maas, and Struwe, 2006 (herb, Gentianaceae) Named for the Yanomamö, indigenous to the area of Venezuela where the plant is found. [Harvard Papers in Botany 11: 29]

Yicaris dianensis Zhang, Siveter, Waloszek & Maas 2007 (Late Cambrian crustacean) The Yi are an ethnic minority group of Yunnan Province, China. "Dian" refers to an ancient kingdom of southern China.

Zuniceratops Wolfe & Kirkland, 1998 (ceratopsian dinosaur) Named for the Zuni Native American tribe.