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Article: INSECT EXPERT COMING BIG DISCOVERIES IN RAIN FOREST MORE KINDS OF BUGS THAN ANYONE EVER DREAMED OF.(FRONT)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- October 29, 2001
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Byline: Ron Seely Environment reporter
Working in Central and South American rain forests, entomologist Terry Erwin has identified so many new insect species that he's frequently at a loss about what to name his discoveries.
Erwin, who is curator for the Smithsonian Institution's Department of Entomology in Washington, D.C., specializes in classifying ground beetles of the genus Agra. Once, confronted by a couple of specimens, obviously of species never before seen, Erwin struggled to come up with names and, finally, impressed by their large feet, named one Agra sasquatch and the other Agra yeti.
On another occasion, staring down at a new ...