The genus is named Saurona, as marks on the insect's wings look like the all-seeing eye in Tolkien's books.
Scientists have named a new group of butterflies after the villain Sauron from the Lord of the Rings novels.
The Natural History Museum in London hopes the unusual title will draw attention to the species and help generate more research.Saurona triangular and Saurona aurigera are the inaugural members of the group but it's expected many more species will join them. A group of 30 scientists from around the world have spent a decade studying the butterfly subtribe Euptychiina.The experts analysed more than 400 different species of butterfly, and used advances in DNA to identify the differences between them at a genetic level, as well as by their appearance.
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