Undergraduate student discovers 18 new species of aquatic beetle in South America

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4. "The Creator Has an Inordinate Fondness for Beetles"

{J.B.S.} Haldane discussed the prevalence of stars and beetles in his book “What is life?” published in the 1940s:

"The Creator would appear as endowed with a passion for stars, on the one hand, and for beetles on the other, for the simple reason that there are nearly 300,000 species of beetle known, and perhaps more, as compared with somewhat less than 9,000 species of birds and a little over 10,000 species of mammals. Beetles are actually more numerous than the species of any other insect order. That kind of thing is characteristic of nature."

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/23/beetles/