A bit of good luck: A new species of burying beetle from the Solomon Islands Archipelago

(Pensoft Publishers) Scientists discovered a new species of burying beetle from the Solomon Islands Archipelago. Nicrophorus efferens was discovered when one of the authors, Tonya Mousseau, decided to look through the local museum collections during a holiday in Hawaii. The lucky find is a type of burying beetle, a group of beetles famous among naturalists for their peculiar reproductive habits. The study was published in the open access journal Zookeys.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - Category: Biology Source Type: news