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New calculation method: Think 1.5 million beetle species is a lot? Think again - C C - Jun 4, 2015
http://www.futurity.org/beetle-species-conservation-934652/
EXCERPT: There are probably about 1.5 million different types of beetles roaming the earth—but that’s millions fewer than previously believed. The new findings reflect an entirely new method of species calculation derived from samples of beetles from the comprehensive collection at London’s Natural History Museum. The study results narrow global species estimates for beetles, insects, and terrestrial arthropods, researchers say....
RE: New calculation method: Think 1.5 million beetle species is a lot? Think again - elte - Jun 4, 2015
There has been a very small beetle coming inside my house here with cumulative numbers close to a million over the past few years. It has some characteristics of the plaster beetle, yet I have doubts that it is that.