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Mystery Bug Has Experts Baffled at London's Natural History Museum

Science & Tech (tags: London, England, UK, Natural History Museum, bug species, natural sciences, discovery, new species )

Kactus
- 87 days ago - cnn.com

Experts at London museum baffled by a bug that has appeared in its grounds. Almond-shaped insect, about size of a grain of rice, 1st.seen in March 2007. Museum has 28M insect species in its collection, but none is an exact match.

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Kactus Kat (334)

Tuesday July 15, 2008, 3:02 pm
From article:
The museum has more than 28 million insect species in its collection, but none is an exact match for this insect. The bug resembles the Arocatus roeselii, which is usually found in central Europe but is a brighter red and lives on alder trees.

Entomologists suspect that the new bug could be a version of the roeselii that has adapted to live on plane trees but acknowledged that it could be an entirely new species.

Can YOU identify it? :))