Elliot names the bug/beetle he finds Alfred, and says to Maura 'Don't you think he looks like an Alfred'

My Google senses started tingling, so I googled Alfred bug and didn't find much, but Alfred beetle, and would you believe it, the exactly beetle shows up in the image search suggestions!!

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I clicked through to the article this image was from, and it was about a man called ALFRED RUSSELL WALLACE, who discovered this beetle in the Malay Archipelago ( which my Google senses told me is between Indochina and Australia) and named it Ischiopsopha esmeralda.

The article is really interesting (https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/who-was-alfred-russel-wallace.html), I'll paste a few bits below

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Wallace began his travels through the Malay Archipelago (now Malaysia and Indonesia) in 1854. Over a period of eight years, he accumulated an astonishing 125,660 specimens, including more than 5,000 species new to western science.

Wallace noticed a striking pattern in the distribution of animals around the archipelago. He proposed an imaginary line dividing the region in two parts.

Later known as Wallace's Line, this marked the boundary between the animal life of the Australian region and that of Asia.

One day in 1858, while feverish and confined to his hut on the island of Ternate (now in Indonesia), Wallace had a realisation. He came to understand how species evolved - they changed because the fittest individuals survived and reproduced, passing their advantageous characteristics on to their offspring.

Wallace immediately wrote to someone he knew was interested in the subject, Charles Darwin.

Darwin had been working on the very same theory for 20 years, but was yet to publish. He sought the advice of his friends, who determined that the ideas of both men would be presented at a meeting of the Linnean Society. Darwin's masterpiece, The Origin of Species, came out the following year.

From that time on, Darwin overshadowed Wallace and it has usually been his name alone associated with the theory of evolution by natural selection.

Wallace expressed no resentment at this - in fact he was Darwin's greatest fan. His role in the matter, and Darwin's support, ensured his entry to the highest ranks of the scientific establishment.

Wallace and Darwin did not agree on everything. Wallace, to the discomfort of many contemporaries, was a spiritualist.

He believed that natural selection could not explain the human intellect, and that the human spirit persisted after death.

That last part is strange considering what happens in the show with Elliot...

Hope this was interesting!