103 New Beetle Species Named After Star Wars Characters, Mythological Beasts, and More
There are more species of beetle than just about anything else on Earth—approximately 400,000 species described, with perhaps a million or more left to catalog. Now, researchers have identified 103 new species of weevil (a tiny variety of beetle), all from a single Indonesian island. Trigonopterus weevils are wee, egg-shaped insects, dimpled like a golf…