A Colombian researcher has spent years scouring museum collections around the world to help answer a big question: how many different kinds of assassin bugs are there?
According to Forero, many of the original specimens used to describe these species were housed in collections in Europe.
Forero says many of the already proposed names will end up pointing to the same species and thus letting the researchers know what is named and what is an undiscovered, new species deserving of a new name. "Being raised in the hot and humid coast of Ecuador, this was the perfect setting for finding insects," he says,"I marveled about all the little crawling things: What was it? What was its name? What did it do, eat, live?"
"While doing my undergraduate studies, and learning about insects, I started looking more carefully at the various insect groups of the collection," he says,"Although some are very charismatic, like the beetles, I found that the true bugs were truly fascinating, because of their different forms, sizes, and colors."
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