Harrison Ford gets ant named after him

A US scientist has named an ant after Harrison Ford.

Edward Wilson has called a Central American ant, Peidole harrisonfordi, to honour the actor's conservation work.

Ford is Vice Chairman of the American society Conservation International.

Wilson, a Harvard University scientist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, has also named a shiny brown ant from Mexico, Pheidole mooreorum, after Intel Corporation co-founder Gordon Moore and his wife Betty.

The Moores are leading environmental philanthropists.