Traditionally, technical publications do not require that the species authority be included in a paper's Literature Cited section. For example, Photuris tremulans Barber, 1951 does not require a reference to Barber's 1951 paper describing P. tremulans. In an age where a citation index is often used as a metric to an author's impact on the scientific community for hiring or promotional purposes this seems like a major disservice. Publishing a species description can sometimes be the product of years of dedicated hard work not unlike other research projects. Perhaps more importantly, a reader may be discouraged from learning about the species if a reference to the species' description, which often includes ecological information, is not readily made available.